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interfluent, a.|ɪnˈtɜːfluːənt|
[ad. L. interfluent-em, pr. pple. of interfluĕre to flow between.]
1. Flowing between. Now rare.
1651Howell Venice 186* Girt about with the waters of the interfluent Hadrian Sea. 1664Boyle Exp. Cold iii. Wks. 1772 II. 503 Whether the spring of the air depend..upon the agitation of some interfluent subtile matter. 1877Blackie Wise Men 73 The cosmic water's subtle-streaming force, Interfluent, circumfluent.
2. Flowing into each other, intermingling; in which there is an interflow.
1872G. Macdonald Wilf. Cumb. I. x. 137 A world of shadows and sunny streaks, kept ever in interfluent motion. 1885E. C. Stedman in Century Mag. XXIX. 508 The interfluent, luxurious pentameter couplet, revived by Hunt and Keats. 1894Forum (N.Y.) Nov. 284 To draw the mystic line dividing his science from his poetry would be a difficult matter. The two were interfluent streams. |