fluxion

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Their bodies continually going up and down upon perpetual fluxion, they never could live if their minds did the same, like the minds of stationary landsmen.

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  1. noun A flow or flowing.
  2. noun Continual change.
  3. noun Archaic See derivative.

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  • Of course, one finds in the doing that in this translation is like all art - for the poet, as an example, the work is more important than the momentary fluxion of desire. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • 'Scientists believe that politicians exude a catalytic vapour, a concentration of which builds up in the room where they are ensconced with the media people resulting in the fluxion referred to and the spontaneous fall of shoes. —  India eNews
  • Calculus, the fluxion science is thought to be discovered by Leibnitz, a German mathematician. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • From this letter--written to his Archbishop, to request an extension of his leave--we learn that while applying for the passports he was attacked with a fever, "which has ended the worst way it could for me, in a défluxion (de) poitrine_, as the French physicians call it. —  Sterne
  • "From his theory of perpetual fluxion," says Archer Butler, "Plato derived the necessity of seeking a stable basis for the universal system in his world of ideas." —  Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Late Latin flūxiō, flūxiōn-, from Latin flūxus, flux; see flux.

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  1. from French fluxion = Spanish fluxion = Portuguese fluxão = Italian flussione, from Latin fluxio(n-), variant of fluctio(n-), a flowing, from fluere, past participle fluxus, flow: see fluent, fluctuate.
 

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