† fluxiveadj.
Obsolete.
That has the quality of flowing, apt to flow, fluid; literal and figurative. Also, fluctuating, variable.
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the world > time > change > [adjective] > fluctuating
fluxible1561
desultory1581
fluxive?1606
fluctuary1632
desultorious1637
fluctuatinga1680
fluxionary1748
fluctuational1913
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > apt to flow
fleetingc1200
fluxible1556
fluid1603
fluxile1605
fluxive?1606
fluent1611
runny1770
fluidic1883
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H5v In fluxiue humor, which is euer found As I do wane or wax vnto my round.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K2 These often bath'd she in her fluxiue eies.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. viii. 148 Thin and fluxive like water.
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 532 I look not upon that which is fluxive and changeable.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 352 The Fluxive Disposition, or the great Pox.
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adj.?1606