reflorescence (refloresens)

[L. reflores cen (t-) s, ppr. of ref lores cere, begin to bloom again, Nor can we, it is apprehended, peruse the account of the flowering rod of Aaron without being led to re flect on the ascertainment of the Melchisedekian priesthood to the person of Christ, by the reflorescence of that mortal part which he drew from the stem of Je e. Horne, Works, IV. xvi. reflourish (re-flur'ish), v. i. [ ing back, ebb, If man were out of the world, who were then to search out the causes of the flux and reflux of the sea, and the hidden virtue of the magnet? Dr. H. More, Antidote against Atheism, ii. 12. There will be disputes among its neighbours, and some of these will prevail at one time and some at another, in the perpetual flux and reflux of human affairs. Bolingbroke , The Occasional Writer, No. 2. The old miracle of the Greek proverb,... which adopted the reflux of rivers towards their fountains as the liveliest type of the impo ible. De Quincey , Homer, iii. reflux-valve (rē'fluks-valv), n . An automatic valve designed to prevent reflux; a back-pre ure valve. E. H. Knight . refocillatet (rē-fos'i-lat), v. t. [ It. rifocillare, refocillare = Sp. refocilar = Pg. refocillar ), warm into life again, revive, revivify,