influxive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

influx +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

influxive (comparative more influxive, superlative most influxive)

  1. Having a tendency to flow inward.
  2. (obsolete) Having influence; influential.
    • 1642, Richard Holdsworth, A Sermon Preached in St. Maries in Cambridge:
      He is the influxive head, who both governs the whole body, and every member which is in any way serviceable to the body.