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plural euripuses or euripi
A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows with violence, like the ancient firth of this name between Euboea and Boeotia. examples
(by extension) A flux and reflux. quotations examples
They have ordained that the provision of this establishment might be as stable as the earth on which it stands , and should not fluctuate with the Euripus of funds and actions
1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […]