Definition of Effluvia

1. Noun. (plural of effluvium) ¹

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Definition of Effluvia

1. effluvium [n] - See also: effluvium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effluvia

efflorescence
efflorescences
efflorescencies
efflorescency
efflorescent
effloresces
efflorescing
efflower
effluence
effluences
effluencies
effluency
effluent
effluents
effluous
effluvia (current term)
effluviable
effluvial
effluviant
effluviate
effluviated
effluviates
effluviating
effluvium
effluviums
efflux
effluxes
effluxion
effluxions
efforce

Literary usage of Effluvia

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

1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1814)
"Ail Essay towards an Inquiry how for the effluvia from dead Animal Bodies, passing through the natural process of Putrefaction, are efficient in the ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... which were in unbroken communication with a drain outside, offensive effluvia at times made their way into the dwellings, these having been especially ..."

3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1806)
"REMARKABLE EFFECT OF effluvia, &C. every amputation he would attack the bull. ... Remarkable Effect of the effluvia from Ammonia Mn. riate of Platina on the ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"... which were in unbroken communication with a drain outside, offensive effluvia at times made their way into the dwellings, these having been especially ..."

5. Yellow Fever, Considered in Its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and by René La Roche (1855)
"Sources of the effluvia different.—These fevers all differ from each other ; while none of them resemble exactly the form of disease which constitutes the ..."

6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"But others there are amongst the ancient Atomists, who could not conceive sensations themselves to be thus caused by corporeal effluvia, ..."

7. A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy: With Notes Containing the by John Rowning (1744)
"... effluvia, for th£y iwim near th§ Top of the ... lighter than that wherein "th^ effluvia reft, that is^ directly ".upwards from ..."

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