efflux

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In sensation, the thing perceived produces images by means of effluxes which impinge upon the soul-atom.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

But, as it gets farther and farther away, I ask myself, more and more confidently, as time effluxes, whether, after all, it was not clever juggling,—superhumanly clever juggling, if you will; that, and nothing more.

From The Beetle by Marsh, Richard

But in the organs of sense these pores are specially adapted to receive the effluxes which are continually rising from bodies around us; and in this way perception is somewhat obscurely explained.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

It is a living, sensitive agent, into which the spirit pours its own life, through which it communes with all external nature, and receives the effluxes of God streaming from a material creation.

From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Whittelsey, Mrs. A. G.

And of Cone rather then Pyramid because of the roundnesse of the figure, which the effluxes of all things imitate.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry