refluent

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Adjective

refluent

1. (now, literary) Flowing back.

   Synonyms: ebbing

   • circa 1615 George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odyssey, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309,

     […] let them cast it [my soul] downe

     Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne

     His curled head;

   • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123,

     When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;

   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Part 1, Section 5,

     […] in haste the refluent ocean

     Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach

     Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 6, p. 208,

     now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again

Translations

• Italian: refluo

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