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English
Etymology
From Latin flūxūra (“a flowing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflʌkʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈflʌkʃə(ɹ)/
Noun
fluxure
- (obsolete) The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], “”, in The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. , London: for William Holme, , published 1600, →OCLC, signature B ij, verso:Humor […] in it ſelfe 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: for M Lownes; I Browne; I Helme; I Busbie, →OCLC, page 136:Call'd Barnacles by us, which like a Jelly first / To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst.
References
Latin
Participle
flūxūre
- vocative masculine singular of flūxūrus