refluent
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of refluent
1690–1700; < Latin refluent- (stem of refluēns ), present participle of refluere to flow back. See re-, fluent
Example Sentences
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The bows scarce reached, the rope Saturnia rends, 793 And down the refluent tide the loosened ship descends.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
What Tantalus is this, who health still craves So oft, yet vainly, from the refluent waves?
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Oh, look! the sea is fallen asleep, The sail hangs idle evermore; Yet refluent from the outer deep The low wave sobs upon the shore.
From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward
Little by little the refluent waves carried back portions of the crumbled mass, and deposited them in the neighboring depressions.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.
When the urinary lymphatics invert their motions, and pour their refluent contents into the bladder, some other branch of the absorbent system acts with greater energy to supply this fluid.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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