refluous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
refluous (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Flowing backwards; refluent.
- Synonym: ebbing
- 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Tribe of Reuben”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 17, page 62:
- [T]he ſtream of Jordan ſouth of their going over, vvas not ſupplied vvith any reciprocall or refluous tide out of the Dead ſea, […]
- 1759, Malcolm Flemyng, An Introduction to Physiology:
- [T]he vena portarum receives the refluous blood from the ſtomach and ſmall inteſtines […]
- 1786 November 27, George Canning, editor, The Microcosm:
- Or comets from their ſtream of blazing hair / Shake the blue peſtilence, and adverſe ſvvay / Of refluous battle, o'er ſome high vic'd land
References[edit]
- [1] in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913