fluxure
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin fluxura (“a flowing”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fluxure
- (obsolete) The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
- 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- [H]umour […] in itself holds these two properties: Moisture and fluxure […]
- (obsolete) Fluid matter.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 27”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC, page 136:
- Call'd Barnacles by us, which like a Jelly first / To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst.
References edit
- “fluxure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Participle edit
flūxūre