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Definition of Effluxions
1. effluxion [n] - See also: effluxion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effluxions
Literary usage of Effluxions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"For these effluxions penetrate all bodies, and like the species of visible objects
are ... And truly the doctrine of effluxions,5 their penetrating natures, ..."
2. Outlines of the History of the English Language by Thomas Northcote Toller (1900)
"For these effluxions penetrate all bodies ... Now, whether these effluxions do
fly by striated atoms and winding particles, as Renatus des Cartes conceiveth ..."
3. The Classical Journal (1823)
"... is the mistake of Olympiodorus in asserting that Proclus thought the images
in mirrors to be reflections, and not effluxions; as Proclus in Plat. ..."
4. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes (1920)
"... who draws his chief inspiration not from his own true impulses, but from the
grosser effluxions of the atmosphere which mo- ^ mentarily surrounds him. ..."
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