refluent

Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“I flow back”).

refluent (comparative more refluent, superlative most refluent)

1. (now literary) Flowing back.

   Synonym: ebbing

   • c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309,

     […] let them cast it [my soul] downe

     Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne

     His curled head;

   • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123,

     When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;

   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Part 1, Section 5,

     […] 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.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, OCLC 154641284; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:

     now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again

refluent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of refluer

refluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of refluō