innitency

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin inniti, past participle of innixus (to lean upon).

Noun[edit]

innitency (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A leaning; pressure; weight.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
      Which consisting of two Vectes or armes, converted towards each other, the innitency and stresse being made upon the hypomochlion or fulciment in the decussation, the greater compression is made by the union of two impulsors.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “innitency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)