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fluxionary, a.|ˈflʌkʃənərɪ|
[see -ary.]
1. = fluxional 1.
1734Berkeley Analyst §10 The great Author of the Fluxionary Method. 1763W. Emerson Meth. Increm. vii, Some fluxionary quantities have no fluents, but what are expressed by series. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) I. ii. 35 We find him occupied with his fluxionary calculus.
2. Of the nature of, or subject to ‘fluxion’ or continuous change, fluctuating.
1748Lond. Mag. June 255/2 The general ferment..in matter, whereby all bodies are..disposed to undergo those fluxionary changes necessary to their generation, growth and corruption. 1826De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. XX. 738 Appearances..which, by their very essence, are fluxionary, become unnatural when fixed and petrified. 1841Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 416 All other wealth was fluxionary. |