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‖ colluvies|kəˈl(j)uːvɪiːz|
[L. colluviēs (also colluvio, -um) lit. ‘offscourings, washings, swillings’, f. collu-ĕre to wash thoroughly, rinse.]
1. Chiefly Med. A collection or gathering of filth or foul matter; spec. foul discharge from an ulcer.
1651Biggs New Disp. 73 The aforesaid Colluvies of the remaining humours. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 277 They..stuff up the Lungs with a greater Colluvies of Recrements. 1811in Hooper Med. Dict. 1881in Syd. Soc. Lex.
2. Conflux (of waters, etc.).
1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 305 He pretends that all Rivers proceed from a Colluvies or Rendevous of Rain-waters. 1819Rees Cycl. Colluvies, a term which..writers on the universal deluge have applied to the fluid mass into which..the strata of the antediluvian earth were dissolved.
3. fig. Medley, rabble, hotchpotch. (So in L.)
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. Ep. Ded. 11 A colluvies of Heresies. 1671S. Clarke Mirr. Saints & Sinners (ed. 4) I. 45 A colluvies of most filthy lecherous people. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 460 Hannibal..having a mixt colluvies of all nations under him. 1730Pope Let. to Gay 11 Sept., From the midst of the Colluvies and sink of human greatness at W―r. |