fluxure

noun — 2 senses

fluxure

noun

/ˈflʌkʃʊə(ɹ)/ · /ˈflʌkʃə(ɹ)/

Etymology From Latin flūxūra (“a flowing”).

1

Obsolete The quality of being fluid; fluidity.

  • Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties, Moiſture and Fluxure: […]1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Inductio”, in The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signature B ij, verso:
2

Obsolete Fluid matter.

  • Call'd Barnacles by us, which like a Jelly first / To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst.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: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 136:

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