Definition of Effluences

1. effluence [n] - See also: effluence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effluences

efflation
efflations
effleurage
effleurages
effloresce
effloresced
efflorescence
efflorescences
efflorescencies
efflorescency
efflorescent
effloresces
efflorescing
efflower
effluence
effluences (current term)
effluencies
effluency
effluent
effluents
effluous
effluvia
effluviable
effluvial
effluviant
effluviate
effluviated
effluviates
effluviating
effluvium

Literary usage of Effluences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1902)
"And passages into which and through which the effluences pass? Men. Exactly. Soc. And some of the effluences fit into the passage«, and some of them are too ..."

2. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Stöckl (1887)
"The influence of distant bodies upon one another as well as the possibility of mixture, Empedocles explains by admitting effluences ..."

3. William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and by William Gilbert, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Edward Wright (1893)
"These effluences cohere through continuity of substance; and heavy bodies, too, are united to earth by their heaviness and advance with it in the general ..."

4. Source Book in Ancient Philosophy by Charles Montague Bakewell (1907)
"The objects in each case fit the corresponding pores, and the colors are carried into the eye by effluences. ... Hearing, he says, is caused by sounds ..."

5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"His characters are never exactly "human effluences," they are effluences of books and of a fantastic individual combination of scholarly taste and wilful ..."

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