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[a. F. influx (1547 in Godef.), or ad. late L. influxus, f. influĕre to flow in, f. in- (in-2) + fluĕre to flow.]
1. The act or fact of flowing in; an inflow, as of a physical fluid, water, air, light, heat, spiritual or immaterial influence into the soul, etc.
1626Bacon Sylva Cent. x. Pref., Whether there be..any such Transmission and Influx of Immateriate Vertues. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 143 God did command the use of such anointing oil..that by it the person anointed might be made fit to receive the divine influx. a1691Boyle Strange Reports i. viii. Wks. 1772 V. 608 When the great springtides come roaring over those shoals..the first influx is irresistible by such vessels as use that port. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 19 The Heart of it self is like a Muscle, and contracts its Fibres by the Influx of Animal Spirits. 1823Rutter Fonthill 34 The lofty windows to the west admit a strong influx of light. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 89 God..has removed all hindrance to the influx of His grace.
b. The flowing of a river or stream into another river, a lake, or the sea; the point at which this takes place, the mouth of a river.
1652Heylin Cosmogr. iv. 110 Rivers..a mile and an half broad at the mouth or influx. 1675Ogilby Brit. 20 The Kennet, near its Influx into the Thames. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2), Torksey, near the influx of the Fosdyke into the Trent. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 33 From Wallingford, a little below the influx of the Thame, the river flows almost due south.
2. transf. The flowing or continuous ingression of persons or things into some place or sphere.
1652Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 77 There were railes round about to hinder the influx of unruly people. 1771Johnson Falkland Isl. ⁋5 The Spaniards, who..discovered America..surprized and terrified Europe by a sudden and unexampled influx of riches. 1775― Journ. West. Isl., St. Andrews 8 A people..who..suffered no dilution of their zeal through the gradual influx of new opinions. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xxi. §1 (1876) 375 Imported commodities have possibly risen in price, from the influx of money into foreign countries. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §420 The influx of Greek..and its general adoption into scientific terminology. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. xlviii. 234 The influx of settlers from the Slave States.
†3. = influence 2. [So influxus stellarum in Firmicus c 340.] Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §907 Not by Formes, or Celestiall Influxes (as is vainly taught and received), but by the Primitiue Nature of Matter, and the Seeds of Things. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 36 That dominion, which the Starres have over the sensuall appetite, which together with the Will, are..incited..by their influxes. 1650― Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 106 He escap'd the influxes of Heaven, and advanc'd himself in despight of the malignant stars.
†4. = influence 3–5. Obs.
physical influx: see influence 4
1644Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy v. 39 Have not the Houses an Authoritative Concurrence and Influx into that businesse? 1650Baxter Saints' R. i. Ded., The nature of the Divine Influx on the Will in the working of Grace. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxxviii. §14 (1689) 251 By heats and droughts..though those two do not much concern Sea-fish..yet they have a great influx upon Rivers, Ponds and Lakes. a1703Burkitt On N. T., Rom. ix. 18 God did not harden Pharaoh's heart by any positive act or influx upon it, by infusing any evil into it. |