fluxive

English

Etymology

Adjective

fluxive (comparative more fluxive, superlative most fluxive)

flowing; lacking solidity
- 1641, Jonson, Ben, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter:
  Their arguments are as fluxive as liquor spilt upon a table, which with your finger you may drain as you will.

Synonyms

fluent; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fluxive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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