fluxus

• ““Et insanivit libidine super concubitum eorum carnes sunt ut carnes asinorum, et sicut fluxus equorum, fluxus eorum.” — “And she has maddened for the embraces of those whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses.””

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “In the De curis, Rhazes suggested three possible causes for what he called "flowing of the bowels" (fluxus ventris) — dentition, the child's exposure to cold when he was swaddled, and milk corrupted by bile and phlegm.”

  A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

• “Cum autem fluxus cupiditatis Evam intravit, omnes venae eius in fluvium sanguinis apertae sunt.”

  A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

• “I hate when my life is in such fluxus that I can't enjoy the good thing for any chunk of time because something else happened.”

  Breakfast in Bed

• “Ampli鵶 autem dum adhuc propriam regionem peragraret, antequam barbarorum aliquis aduersus nos militaret in bellis aduersarius, 鎔ritudo difficillima fluxus ventris invasit nos, qui diffusus per agmina imperij nostri pertransibat, depopulando et interimendo multos, omni pugnatore grauior.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “When he gave me the DAT with the mix on it in a church, of all places he described it as his “dada/fluxus” spirit coming out to roost.”

  Disquiet » Army of One

• “Smaller than this Common Burnet is the Salad Burnet, _Poterium sanguisorba, quod sanguineos fluxus sistat_, a useful [431] styptic, which is also cordial, and promotes perspiration.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

• “Afterwards the joint should be strapped for four or five inches above the ankle with plaster, _ut prohibeatur fluxus_.”

  Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

• “Foris in collo gestatum, contra fascinationes et nocturna terriculamenta pueros tueri volunt; capitis etiam destillationibus, et tonsillarum ac faucium vitiis resistere, oculorum fluxus et ophthalmias curare.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

• “Every action it is defined, fluxus virium agentis; it is the drawing forth the very spirit and vigour of the agent upon some object: thoughts like shadows in the mind quickly vanish; words are transient, and pass away; but deeds and actions will abide.”

  Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.

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