a. Obs. [as if ad. L. fluxīvus, f. flux- ppl. stem of fluĕre to flow: see -IVE.] That has the quality of flowing, apt to flow, fluid; lit. and fig. Also, fluctuating, variable.
1597. Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 50.
| These often bath’d she in her fluxive eyes, | |
| And often kiss’d, and often gave to tear. |
1605. Drayton, Man in Moone, 311.
| In fluxive humour, which is ever found, | |
| As I doe wane, or wax up to my round. |
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., III. viii. 148. The watry because thin and fluxive like water, occupies the whole space between the Tunica cornea, and the fore part of the Chrystalline.
a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm. (1675), 532. I look not upon that which is fluxive and changeable, but upon a propitiation in Brass.
1716. M. Davies, Athenæ Britannicæ, II. 352. The Fluxive Disposition, or the great Pox, which can scarce ever be cur’d without Viperals or Mercurials.
