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This problem is said to have been worked out by a Mr. McLaughland, a noted Scotch mathematician, who arrived at his conclusion by laborious and careful fluxionary calculation. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

Persons subject to frequent Colds, which Habits are sometimes termed fluxionary, or liable to Distillations, imagine, they ought to keep themselves very hot.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The new Calculus, which Europe lauds, is nothing less," they suggested, "than your fluxionary method, which Mr. Leibnitz has pirated, anticipating its tardy publication by the genuine author.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various