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refluent, a.|ˈrɛfluːənt|
[ad. L. refluent-em, pres. pple. of refluĕre to flow back, f. re- re- 2 a + fluĕre to flow.]
1. Flowing back, reflowing:
a. of the sea, waves, rivers, etc.
1712Blackmore Creation iii. 139 Do not the Rivers..to the Hills convey the Refluent Wave..? 1725Pope Odyss. v. 549 Then backward sweep The refluent tides, and plunge him in the deep. 1791Cowper Iliad xii. 30 All those [rivers] with refluent course Apollo drove Nine days against the rampart. 1812Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 37 In lower Louisiana, there are a great number of lakes from the refluent waters of the Mississippi. 1873T. W. Higginson Oldport Days ii. 36 All night the phosphorescent water..washes with long, refluent waves along their sides.
transf.1842Alison Hist. Europe lxxxiv. §1 The once triumphant Peninsular hosts, refluent through the passes of the Pyrenees. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 78 To give him a hold against any refluent doubt that might threaten to sweep him back.
b. of blood, the spirits, life, etc.
1699Garth Dispens. 91, I show'd of old, how vital Currents glide, And the Meanders of their refluent Tide. 1714Spring in Steele Poet. Misc. 109 When to his Heart the refluent Spirits came. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 77 Slow-ebbing life with refluent crimson breaks O'er their wan lips. 1816Southey Lay of Laureate lxix, I felt the refluent blood forsake my face. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxxii, Too languid to sting, he had the more venom refluent in his blood.
c. Phys. of blood or other fluids.
1704Ray Creation ii. (ed. 4) 319 To discharge the refluent Blood into the next adjacent Trunk. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 347 The ammoniacal salt of the refluent urine. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 924 The heading back will..fill the ventricle still more with refluent aortic blood.
2. Characterized by refluence, esp. tidal.
1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 21 This..Reflux it was.., which gave Rise to another Division of the Nerves into arterious or effluent, and venous or refluent. 1798Anti-Jacobin No. 28 Wherever man is found, or refluent oceans roll. 1864Tennyson Boadicea 28 A phantom colony smoulder'd on the refluent estuary.
†3. Directed backwards. Obs. rare—1.
1741Shenstone Judgm. Hercules 424 If o'er their lives a refluent glance they cast, Their's is the present who can praise the past. |