fluxure

English

Etymology

From Latin flūxūra (“a flowing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflʌkʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈflʌkʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

fluxure

1. (obsolete) The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
   • 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], “[Prologue]”, in The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, signature B ij, verso:

     Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties, Moiſture and Fluxure: […]

2. (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[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] 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

• “fluxure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

flūxūre

1. vocative masculine singular of flūxūrus