a. [f. EFFLUVI-UM + -OUS.] Of the nature of an effluvium, passing off like an effluvium.
1668. Howe, Bless. Righteous (1825), 125. The soul should covet a re-union with every effluvious particle of its former body.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 851. They supposing Humane Volitions … to be Mechanically Caused and Necessitated, from those Effluvious Images of Bodies.
