affluxion
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]affluxion (plural affluxions)
- (archaic) The act of flowing towards; afflux.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- an hot and sanguineous affluxion
References
[edit]- “affluxion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.