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flatulency|ˈflætjʊlənsɪ|
[f. next: see -ency.]
1. = flatulence 2. Also an instance of this.
1660Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 159 They discussing their flatulency by garrulity. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments v. (1735) 140 The most sure Sign of a deficient Perspiration is Flatulency, or Wind. 1757A. Cooper Distiller ii. viii. (1760) 135 Cinnamon..dispels Flatulencies, and is a pleasant Cardiac. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 367 His disease originated from flatulency. 1858Copland Dict. Pract. Med. I. 1043 Flatulency..an undue formation and accumulation of air in the stomach or intestines, with frequent rejection of it.
b. Tendency to cause flatulence.
1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner E viij, Other referre it to their [Beanes'] flatulencie, whereby they provoke to lechery.
2. = flatulence 3.
1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. (1669) 343/2 The flatulency of them which puffs up others into pride. c1698Locke Cond. Underst. xxii, Puffed up with a flatulency arising from a weak and narrow comprehension. |