mucidness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mucidness (uncountable)
- (also figurative, rare) The state or condition of being mucid.
- Synonym: mucidity
- 1700, Richard Boulton, book III, chapter III, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Eſq.: Epitomiz’d, volume II, London: Printed for J. Phillips […], and J. Taylor […], page 84:
- From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and Lark-Spurs, the Succeſs was different.
- 1884 August 14, “Newspapers and Goobers”, in Ellsworth Reporter, volume 13, number 39, Ellsworth, Kansas: Gebhardt & Huycke, page 2:
- The average reader judges a paper by the amount of news it contains; its reliability as a chronicler of events; its enterprise in the direction of printing facts; its independence, coupled with the ability of its manager to extract solid news from slops, straight intelligence from fribbling mucidness.
- 1888 May 15, “Chinese Gardeners”, in The Australian Star, number 142, Sydney, page 2:
- The windows that were inteneded to allow light and sun into the place have never been cleaned, and the rays that furtively find their way through serve only as a contrast, and helps to show the mucidness, rankness, and feculence of the surroundings and the defilement of the inhabitants […]
- 1889, Joseph Depierre, Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods, page 408:
- Let us suppose that in a given space there exists a spore of mucidness. This spore is arrested on the surface of a liquid placed to receive it, and containing azote (nitrogen), carbon, oxygen, mineral substances, and other necessary elements for its germination, in certain proportions; the germination begins.
- 1891, Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs: Consisting of Original Treatises and Reproductions, in English, of Books and Monographs Selected from the Latest Literature of Foreign Countries, with All Illustrations, Etc. V. 1-12, page 457:
- The colonies are not long in developing, in differently colored points, upon the nutritive paper; while they are very confluent when the water in impure, they are infrequent when the water is poor in bacteria and in mucidness. After eight to fifteen days, when assured that the number of spots does not sensibly increase, the paper is withdrawn from the incubating vessel and placed in a heated air stove at about 45 °C .; […]
- 1937 May 4, Mabelle Jennings, “An Editorial”, in Washington Herald, volume 15, number 162, Washington, D.C., page 9:
- The fact is that we have, all of us, been dilatory to a degree where burlesque is concerned. We should have taken shots at its mucidness, its obnoxious strip acts, its coarse and unfunny humors—harpooned performers whose didoes nauseated us.