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feracity rare.|fəˈræsɪtɪ| [ad. L. ferācitāt-em, noun of quality f. ferāx: see prec. and -acity.] The quality of being feracious; fruitfulness, productiveness. † Of a person: The profit he makes.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xii. 68 [The olive] wagged with wynde of feracitee. 1448MS. Records Grocers Company, Facsimile Copy 292 That eny seche brocour..Shulde be contributory to the werkes of the place. Euery Brocour after his feraucite. 1650C. Elderfield Tythes 134 The earth, cursed..into a..natural feracity of briars and thorns. 1793Beattie Moral Sc. iv. i. §3. 517 Such writers, instead of brittle, would say fragile, instead of fruitfulness, feracity. 1822E. Nathan Langreath III. 290 The lack of feracity arising from the lower orders becoming desidiose. |