preterfluent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin praeterfluens.
Adjective
[edit]preterfluent (not comparable)
- (obsolete) flowing by
- 1718, Edward Strother, Criticon Febrium:
- the eaſier they yield to the Moment of the preterfluent Blood, and the more they are ſtretch'd
- 1723, Henry Rowlands, Mona Antiqua Restaurata:
- or like the men of Egypt, ſhall we only confine our view to the preterfluent ſtream of Nile, and reſolve to look no higher, becauſe, it is ſaid, its fountain-head lies hid beyond the mountains of the moon?