refluctuation en · NOUN
Etymology
From re- + fluctuation.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) A flowing back; refluence; ebbing.
And it is more probable, that the Impressions made upon our Organs produce an Undulation and Refluctuation of the Spirits, or of Newton's materia subtilis in the Nervous Fibrils, which reaching the Sensorium, gives us the Ideas of objects; than that these Ideas should be excited by these Vibrations themselves."
1752, William Porterfield, “An Essay concerning the Motions of our Eyes”, in Medical Essays and Observations, volume 3, page 165:Now the Reason, or rather the Cause from whence this Imbecility or Weakness of the Head did proceed is, for as much as there is a Penury or lake of Spirits by their Refluctuation to their proper Fountain and Center, and that occasion'd by Sleep, they are not so quickly and readily distributed and diffused again through the Organs of the Senses.
1681, William Salmon, Iatrica: seu, Praxis Medendi. The practice of curing, page 98:It is striking that the "sensorial motions" do not hinge on vibration or the flow of the spirit like the inflowing of animal spirits through the nerves to the muscles ("The sensorial motions...are not here supposed to be flutuations or refluctuation of the spirit of animation; nor are they supposed to be vibrations or revibrations") , but on the motions “peculiar to life."
2016, Hisao Ishizuka, Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment, page 145:
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(uncountable, usually) A return or resurgence.
But he is not even sure that this is the real spring of his hesitancy, it is rather the refluctuation of old emotions; and he would prefer to escape.
1956, Advocate - Volumes 140-142, page 20:[…] production during years of stress, and its comparative refluctuation when social conditions are easy and prosperous.
1946, Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, page 54:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| refluctuations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |