Definition of "effluxion" [ef•flux•ion]

• The process of flowing out. (noun)
• That which has flowed out. (noun)

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• "What is called effluxion is a destruction of the embryo within the first week, while abortion occurs up to the fortieth day; and the greater number of such embryos as perish do so within the space of these forty days."
• "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."
• "About fifteen hundred pounds 'weight of artificial and compound magnets are so disposed and arranged as to be continually pouring forth in an ever-flowing circle inconceivable and irrestibly powerful tides of the magnetic effluxion, which is well known to have"