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The outward flow of the tide
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reflux
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflux \Re"flux`\, n. [F. reflux. See Refluent , Flux .] A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides. All from me Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound. --Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a flowing back (of the sea, etc.)," from Medieval Latin refluxus , from Latin re- "back, again" (see re- ) + fluxus "a flowing" (see flux ). Digestive sense is recorded from 1937.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Reflux is a technique involving the condensation of vapors and the return of this condensate to the system from which it originated. It is used in industrial and laboratory distillations . It is also used in chemistry to supply energy to reactions over ...
Usage examples of reflux.
It was an attempt at pure Ascent, pure transcendence, pure Reflux, radical detachment.
The flux and reflux of nations are but periods of the forward march: the great centuries of light, which dark ages at times replace, simply mark the phases of that march.
There is a reflux in the tide of human things which bears the shipwrecked hopes of men into a secure haven after the storms are past.
Fabre thus agrees with Pasteur, who in the world of the infinitely little shows us the same antagonisms, the same vital competition, the same eternal movement of flux and reflux, the same whirlpool of life, which is extinguished only to reappear: tending always towards an equilibrium which is incessantly destroyed.
But in the intervals of inspiration, and they may be frequent without being durable, a poet becomes a man, and is abandoned to the sudden reflux of the influences under which others habitually live.
It is remarkable, that the principles of religion have a kind of flux and reflux in the human mind, and that men have a natural tendency to rise from idolatry to theism, and to sink again from theism into idolatry.
Benza, on his third pack of Gaviscom, nursed an upset stomach, his acid reflux acting up.
Suchnessthe timeless and ever-present Ground which is equally and fully present in and as every single being, high or low, ascending or descending, effluxing or refluxing.
Does not the refluxing movement of God and the effluxing movement of the Goddess embrace the entire Circle of Ascent and Descent?
But now at last he saw that the flux and reflux, the play of the tides, which for a part of the day brought the waters to lap the strip of sand that separated them from the forest and for the rest of the day made them withdraw, revealed a rocky expanse that, as Father Caspar explained, was the last outcrop of the coral reef.
One more detail jumps out of the obituary to give me a twinge of acid reflux: the bit about how Jimmy and Cleo Rio first met at a VH1 party.