Obs. [a. F. fluence, ad. L. fluentia, f. fluentem: see FLUENT.]
1. A flowing, a stream.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. 223.
| That he first did cleanse | |
| With sulphur, then with fluences of sweetest water rense. |
2. = FLUENCY 2, 3.
1607. Heywood, Fayre Mayde Exch., Wks. 1874, II. 56. O the naturall fluence of my owne wit had been farre better!
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 547. He [Thomas Hunt] was esteemed a person of quick parts, and of a ready fluence in discourse, but withall too pert and forward.
