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Fluency. [Obs.] Milton.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

A flowing off on all sides; fluidity. [R.]

That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux. Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Milton. And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

A flowing in or upon; influx. [Obs.] God hath his influence into the very essence of all things. Hooker.

One who, or that which, influences.

A flow of sweetness, or a sweet, smooth flow.

To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.

Quality of being profluent; course. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.

Superfluity. [Obs.] Hammond.

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. Milton.

Open to the influence of; -- with to. "Minds accessible to reason." Macaulay.

cuted with care; careful. [Obs.] Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.

e of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow mi…