profluvious

The tradition which we have produced comes to this: namely, if one sees such an issue at one time, which is so continued, that it contains the space of three discoveries; that is, so much time as one might walk "from Gad Javan to Siloam, behold! such a man is completely profluvious."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The thing discoursed of is of the discovery of some profluvious issue.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

For example, one discovers such a profluvious issue in himself, now one by and by another, presently after a third; it is disputed how great or how little distance of time is to be assigned, to make it one or two profluviums; and consequently, to how great or how small an oblation the party is bound for his purification.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

You may recollect here, and perhaps not without profit, that which was alleged before; namely, that it was customary among the Jews, that, when they applied physic to the profluvious woman, they said, "Arise from thy flux"; which very probably they used in other diseases also.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

[One] was a bed, on which a profluvious man or woman, or a menstruous woman, or a woman in childbirth, or a leper, had either sat or stood, or lain, or leaned, or hung.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

He warned his readers that tobacco-smoke was "very pernicious unto their bodies, too profluvious for many of their purses, and most pestiferous to the publike State."

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

Much may be forgiven, however, to the introducer of so charming a term of abuse as "profluvious."

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

The Gloss is, "Some spots in the garments" (namely, of a profluvious woman) "which came from

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979