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▪ I. † ˈfluence1 Obs.
[a. F. fluence, ad. L. fluentia, f. fluentem: see fluent.]
1. A flowing, a stream.
c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. 224 That he first did cleanse With sulphur, then with fluences of sweetest water rense.
2. = fluency 2, 3.
1607Heywood Fayre Mayde Exch. Wks. 1874 II. 56 The naturall fluence of my owne wit. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 547 He was esteemed a person..of a ready fluence in discourse.
▪ II. fluence2|ˈfluːəns|
aphæretic form of influence n., occurring esp. in phr. to put the fluence on (a person), to apply mysterious, magical, or hypnotic power to (a person).
1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 203/2 Put on the flooence, attract, subdue, overcome by mental force. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iii. 31 She was always able to turn me inside out with a single glance, and I haven't come out from under the 'fluence yet. 1937D. Jones In Parenthesis iv. 68 Put the fluence on..drownd the bastards on Christmass Day in the Morning. 1957A. E. Coppard It's Me, O Lord! ii. 21 It was avouched..that if you rubbed the juice of a lemon on the palm of your hand you were armoured against suffering..and as long as the ‘fluence’ lasted other canes broke too. 1958M. Procter Man in Ambush vii. 82 If ever I saw a girl trying to put the 'fluence on a fellow it was Tess. 1965E. Bruton Wicked Saint viii. 105 Put the 'fluence on him and we'll be away. |