v. Obs. [f. EFFLUVI-UM + -ATE3.] a. trans. To throw off (in a stream) small particles or corpuscles; also absol. b. intr. Of the corpuscles themselves: To pass off in a stream. Hence Effluviating ppl. a.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 57. Camphire which spends itself by continually effluviating its own Component Particles. Ibid., II. 103. The Stars and Planets with their Luminous and Vaporous Sphæres continually effluviating from them. Ibid., III. 159. Bodies that effluviate intrinsecally from themselves.
1685. Boyle, Salub. Air, 53. The various effluviating Bodies.
1693. Sir T. P. Blount, Nat. Hist., 186. Not the Evaporations of Camphire, which spends it self by continually effluviating its own Particles.
