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fluxible, a. Obs. or arch.|ˈflʌksɪb(ə)l|
Also 5 fluxyble, 7 fluxable.
[a. OF. fluxible, ad. late L. fluxibilis, f. flux- ppl. stem of fluĕre to flow.]
1. Apt to flow; fluid.
1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 141 The water beynge a lyquide and fluxible bodye, can not be stayed by his owne partes. 1605Timme Quersit. ii. i. 105 Salt, by the vehemencie of the heat of fire, is to be dissolued, moulten, and made fluxible. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. I. 45/2 Stones..are created by Nature..of a liquid and fluxible substance.
fig.1660Milton Free Commw. 437 Good Education..ought to correct the fluxible fault..of our watry situation.
b. Of a watery consistence; hence, pliable, supple.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 408 Not a fluxible or loose fat like the fat of Lambs, but a solid fat, like the fat of Hogs. 1618M. Baret Horsemanship i. 9 The ends of the flint was rather to be hard and firme then soft and fluxable. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. x. 366/2 At that Age all things are fluxible..especially the Bones and Nerves.
2. Capable of being melted; fusible; liquefiable.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. i. vi. in Ashm. (1652) 130 We make Calxes unctious both Whyte and Red..Fluxyble as Wex. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 289 In them doth abound fluxible moisture, apt to be dissolved with every little heat. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 17 Minerals are of two sorts, some fluxible or liquifiable and others not.
quasi-n.1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 17 Dismissing the first Fluxibles, such as Gold.
3. Liable to flux or change; fluctuating, not permanent, variable.
1561Eden Arte Nauig. iii. ii. 56 This is fluxible, wauering, and moueable. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. v. (1660) 120 Meteors..be of nature fluxible, and nothing permanent. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 517 Is there not a natural leuitie and vanitie in every creature which renders it fluxible, variable, and inconstant?
Hence ˈfluxibly adv. fluxiˈbility, ˈfluxibleness, the quality of being fluxible.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. vi. ix. in Ashm. (1652) 163 Every parte all fyre for to endure, Fluxybly fyxe and stabull in tyncture. 1574Newton Health Mag. 38 It..stoppeth over much thinnesse and fluxibilitie of bloude. 1651Hammond Answ. Ld. Falkland vii. Wks. 1684 II. 693 The Fluxibility of humane Nature is so great, that it is no wonder if errours should have crept in. 1727Bailey vol. II, Fluxibleness. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 20 Such humidity is disproportioned by the fluxibility..and therefore it resides more in one part than in another. |