mellifluence (melifloens)

[OF. melliflu ence; as mellifluen ( t ) uen (t) +-ce.] +-ce.] A flow of sweetne ; a smooth, honeyed flow. He [Wotton] was rather struck with the pastoral melliftuence of its lyric measures, which he styles a certain Doric delicacy in the songs and odes. T. Warton , Pref. to Milton's Smaller Poems. mellifluent (me-lifʻlö-ent), a. [= OF. melliflu melliflu ant, mellifluen (t-)s, flowing with honey, mell- ), honey, + fluen ( t- )s, ppr. of fluere , flow: see fluent.] Flowing like honey; smoothly or sweetly flowing. Gre et's clear pipe combines in one Each former bard's mellifluent tone. Cooper , Apology of Aristippus, Ep. 3. mellifluently (me-lif'lö-ent-li), adv. Melliflu ously.