Obs. [ad. L. fluxus, ppl. adj. f. fluĕre to flow.] That is in a state of flux; ever-changing, fluctuating, inconstant, variable.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm., Wks. 1716, III. 61. Considering the frequent viscissitudes that occur, and the flux nature of all things here.
a. 1735. Pope & Arbuthnot, Mart. Scribl., I. xiii. (1741), 44. A Corporation, which is likewise a flux body, may be punished for the faults, and liable to the debts, of their predecessors.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. xxi. 318. The record or enrolment of those writs and the proceedings thereon, which was calculated for the benefit of posterity, was more serviceable (because more durable) in a dead and immutable language than in any flux or living one.
1797. Sir G. Staunton, Acc. Ld. Macartney’s Embassy (1798), III. 420. The form of those characters has not been so flux as the sound of words, as appears in the instance of almost all the countries bordering on the Chinese sea.
