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English
Etymology
Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“I flow back”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
refluent (comparative more refluent, superlative most refluent)
- (now literary) Flowing back.
- Synonym: ebbing
c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309:[…] let them cast it [my soul] downe
Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne
His curled head;
1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123:When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;
Translations
French
Verb
refluent
- third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of refluer
Latin
Verb
refluent
- third-person plural future active indicative of refluō