How To Use fluxion In A Sentence
- Though events and the effluxion of time would soon sweep this away, one does wonder if there had been a more emollient response from Parliament and the British Government and greater willingness to compromise whether matters might have turned out rather differently. American Democracy or European Oligarchy?
- Three of the ladies made it through the first ward, with its cases of scrofula, scabies, eczema, defluxions, and stinking pyemia, before deciding that their charitable inclinations could be entirely satisfied by a donation to L'Hôpital, and fleeing back to the dispensary to shed the rough hopsacking gowns with which we had been furnished. Dragonfly in Amber
- For when a defluxion of cold phlegm takes place on the lungs and heart, the blood is chilled, and the veins, being violently chilled, palpitate in the lungs and heart, and the heart palpitates, so that from this necessity asthma and orthopnoea supervene. On The Sacred Disease
- He calls the quantity generated by a motion a fluent, and its rate of generation a fluxion.
- For when a defluxion of cold phlegm takes place on the lungs and heart, the blood is chilled, and the veins, being violently chilled, palpitate in the lungs and heart, and the heart palpitates, so that from this necessity asthma and orthopnoea supervene. On The Sacred Disease
- Any failure to recall that incident on Mr. Duncan's part is the simple result of the effluxion of the nineteen intervening years.
- He demanded a retraction saying that he had never heard of the calculus of fluxions until he had read the works of Wallis.
- Those evils of Athens then, which were found in very deed somewhat later to be the infirmity of Greece as a whole, when, though its versatile gifts of intellect might constitute it the teacher of its eventual masters, it was found too incoherent politically to hold its own against Rome: -- those evils of Athens, of Greece, came from an exaggerated assertion of the fluxional, flamboyant, centrifugal Ionian element in the Hellenic character. Plato and Platonism
- He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis.
- If the seed remain within for seven days then it is certain that conception has taken place; for it is during that period that what is known as effluxion takes place. The History of Animals