Definition of "influences" []

• Plural form of influence. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of influence. (verb)

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• "For the fact, that certain "organs" exist, by means of which the mind acquires a large portion of its knowledge, and that certain "influences" are known to affect it from without, is too well established to be called in question; and the mere extension of that fact by the discovery of _other organs and other influences_, hitherto unknown, could have no tendency to shut us up, more than before, to the adoption of the theory of Materialism."
• "He drew heavily from a lot of Weimar Berlin influences, which is a topic that interests me, as well as 50s sci-fi movies, opera, and pop standards."
• "They would have been nicer still if they hadn't, all of them, had what appeared to me to be the mania that what they called influences were working against them."