influx

influx
(in-flû) s. m.
Terme didactique. Écoulement sur, dans. Ils [les péripatéticiens] disent que, s'il y avait en effet un vide, les influx célestes, n'étant que des accidents, ne pourraient se transmettre à travers, ce qui causerait sans doute un grand dommage aux corps sublunaires, JULLIEN, Thèses sur quelques points des sciences dans l'antiquité, p. 147.
   XVIe s.
   ....ces vieux Qui premiers ont escrit que les vertus secretes Des pierres s'escouloient de l'influx des planettes, R. BELLEAU Poésies, t. I, p. 15.
   Lat. influxus, de in.... 2, et fluxus, flux.

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