a. Obs. or arch. [ad. late L. fluxil-is, f. flux-: see prec. and -ILE.]
1. = FLUXIBLE 1.
1605. Timme, Quersit., II. iii. 115. The which water, albeit it alwayes remaineth fluxile and liquid, yet it abydeth not simple and pure water, colde, or of smal vertue.
1641. French, Distill., v. (1651), 161. I extracted a good quantity of nitrous salt, which was almost fluxile.
1702. R. Mead, Poisons, 114. The Mercurial Globules … dissolve the Preter-natural Collations of all the Liquors … making them more Fluxile and Thin, or of more easy secretion.
2. = FLUXIBLE 3.
a. 1654. Selden, Engl. Epin., x. § 16. The fluxile nature of this deceitful Prince [King John], aided by Pope Innocent III. and his Nuntio Pandulph, soon loosed that kind of Royal faith and promise.
1858. Bushnell, Serm. New Life, 212. Opinions, sentiments, hopes, fears, popularities, and to these also you may add all the honors and gifts of fortune, are in a fluxile, shifting state.
Hence Fluxility [see -ITY], the quality or condition of being fluxile.
1660. Boyle, New. Exp. Phys. Mech., xxxiii. 249. The Weight and Fluidity, or, at least, Fluxility of the Bodies here below.
1707. Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 37. Not only the Heat and Rarifaction of the Blood and Spirits contribute to the Celerity, but also the Fluxility, or thin consistence of the Blood, and the freedom of the Arteries from Obstruction, Compression and Constrictions.
1721. N. Hodges, Hist. Acc. Plague, 115. Salt adds to the Fluxility of Fluids, and thereby prevents Incrassation.
