Effluvium definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary EFFLU'VIUM, n. plu. effluvia ... s also effluvia noun (plural -via; also -viums) Etymology: Latin effluvium act of flowing out, from effluere Date: 1651 1. an ... smell etc. Etymology: L (as EFFLUENT) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Effluvium Ef*flu"vi*um, n.; pl. Effluvia. [L., a flowing ... sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage. Soule ...
... distinction between them is this. Contagion is the virus or effluvium generated in a diseased body, and capable of producing the ... Infection is used in two acceptations; first, as denoting the effluvium or infectious matter exhaled from the person of one diseased ... secondly, as signifying the act of communication of such morbid effluvium, by which disease is transferred. 2. That which taints, poisons ... 2. That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is ...
... of breath. 2 a mist, vapour. 3 an emanation or effluvium. Etymology: ME f. L exhalatio (as EXHALE) Webster's 1913 ... which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter ... Synonyms n. 1. Evaporation, emission of vapor. 2. Vapor, fume, effluvium, steam, reek, smoke, fog. Moby Thesaurus air, breath, effluvium, emanation, emission, evaporation, exhaust, expiration, fog, fume, gas, mist, puff ...
effluvia definitions Merriam Webster's noun see effluvium Webster's 1913 Dictionary Effluvium Ef*flu"vi*um, n.; pl. Effluvia. [L., a flowing ... sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.
... flows or proceeds from any source, substance or body; efflux; effluvium. Light is an emanation from the sun; wisdom, from God ... breath, definite odor, detectable odor, diffusion, discharge, dispersion, ectoplasm, ectoplasy, effluvium, emergence, emersion, emission, essence, exhalation, exteriorized protoplasm, extrusion, flavor, fragrance ...
... The act of flowing out. 2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. Merriam Webster's noun see efflux Webster's 1913 ... act of flowing out; effusion. 2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. --Bacon.