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fluctuant, a.|ˈflʌktjuːənt|
[ad. L. fluctuant-em, pr. pple. of fluctuāre: see fluctuate v. Cf. F. fluctuant.]
1. Moving like the waves; undulating. Chiefly fig., unstable, wavering, changing.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 171 Howbeit of thame sum part be fluctuant. a1640Jackson Creed x. xix. Wks. 1844 IX. 115 The other [sort] being of better birth, were fluctuant between virtue or civil honesty and base vices. a1704R. L'Estrange (J.) How is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant wandering humour and opinion? 1862Mrs. Browning Poems, Where's Agnes? xxiv, None of these Fluctuant curves! but firs and pines. 1867Swinburne Song Italy 23 In the long sound of fluctuant boughs of trees. 1870― Ess. & Stud. (1875) 260 His genius is fluctuant and moonstruck as the sea is. 1872Contemp. Rev. XIX. 206 No shifting of positions, no fluctuant moods, no mobility of thought.
2. Floating on the waves.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. iii. §1 The militant church, whether it be fluctuant as the ark of Noah, or [etc.]. 1849J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 111 Where change has never urged its fluctuant bark. |