refluent
Flowing back.
Adjective
- Flowing back.
- […] let them cast it [my soul] downe Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne His curled head; - c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309:
- When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them; - 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123:
- […] in haste the refluent ocean Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed. - 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “5”, in...
Synonyms: ebbing
Origin
From Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“to flow back”).