fugient

English

Etymology

From Latin fugientem, present participle of fugo (“flee”).

Adjective

fugient (comparative more fugient, superlative most fugient)

1. (rare or obsolete) Fleeing.
   • 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 349:

     Thus, alongside of the church militant with its prisons, dragonnades, and inquisition methods, we have the church fugient, as one might call it, with its hermitages, monasteries, and sectarian organizations, both churches pursuing the same object—to unify the life, and simplify the spectacle presented to the soul.

Anagrams

• fungite

Latin

Verb

fugient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of fugiō