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profluent, a.|ˈprəʊfluːənt|
[ad. L. prōfluent-em, pr. pple. of prōflu-ĕre to flow forth, f. prō, pro-1 1 a + flu-ĕre to flow; cf. effluent.]
Flowing forth or onward; flowing in a full stream; in first two quots., proceeding or running out of the main body.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xii. 56 Best is holde The croppe to kytte, and save on every side The bowes profluent for fruyte to abyde. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 32 For the subduction of..braunches of Sinewes, profluent from the spinall marey, through the holes in Os sacrum. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 442 Them who shall beleeve Baptizing in the profluent streame. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 42 The great and profluent river of Trent. 1717J. Keill Anim. Oecon. (1738) 77 The Power of the Bladder cannot be estimated by the Motion of the Profluent Urine. 1881J. Thomson in Fortn. Rev. July (1882) 37 My profluent waters perish not from life.
b. fig.
1848J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. XXXVIII. 308 In mild sequence forms of profluent grace Move, tuned to pipes attuning every face. 1866Symonds in Life (1895) I. vii. 359 Elizabethanism..is profluent, profuse of emotion. 1905G. Jackson in Expositor July 63 A babbling profluent way of talking. |