flatuosity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare French flatuosité.
Noun[edit]
flatuosity (countable and uncountable, plural flatuosities)
- (obsolete) flatulence
- 1600, Richard Surflet, Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme:
- It attenuateth […] crude and colde humours, and flatuosities abounding in flegmatike and melancholicke persons.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- The fourth cause is flatuosity : for wind stirred moveth to expel : and we find that ( in effect ) all purgers have in them a raw spirit or wind ; which is the principal cause of tortion in the stomach and belly
- 1675, J.Love, Clavis Med.:
- Remove that flatuosity, which is the cause of thy Disease.
References[edit]
- “flatuosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.