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Definition of Effluviums
1. effluvium [n] - See also: effluvium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effluviums
Literary usage of Effluviums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins (1658)
"... that 'tis performed by effluviums is plain, and granted by moft-, ...
effluviums ' advancing from the body of the Electrick, in their return do carry ..."
2. William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and by William Gilbert, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Edward Wright (1893)
"1 Consult Robert Boyle's "Of the Strange Subtilty of effluviums," 1673, pages
38-42, 52, 53; "Of the Great Efficacy of effluviums," 1673, pages 18, 19, 32, ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1834)
"This philosopher had turned his attention to odours, or effluviums, as he has
termed them, and made experiments on certain odorous bodies, ..."
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