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† fuˈmosity Obs.
[ad. F. fumosité or med.L. fūmōsitās: see fumose, fumous, and -ity.]
1. The quality of being full of fumes or vapours.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. vi. (1495) 607 For fumosyte of the stomacke greuyth the heel and makyth it ake. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 5 Engendering in the head fumositie. 1652J. Wadsworth tr. Colmenero's Chocolate 19 Benzoin the Head frees from Fumosity.
2. The flatulent quality of various articles of food; the heady quality of wine, etc.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 105 Ȝiff dyuerse drynkes of theire fumosite haue þe dissesid. Ibid. 350 Ye must thus know..þe fumositees of fysch, flesche, & fowles. 1542Boorde Dyetary x. (1870) 254 Bycause wyne is full of fumosyte.
b. Ill-smelling breath; smell of food or drink in the breath.
c1530H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture 230 Belche thou neare to no mans face with a corrupt fumosytye. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 83 b, Rubbe your teeth wel..to take awaye the fumositie of the meate.
3. Vaporous humour rising into the head from the stomach.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 358 Ful were hir hedes of fumositee. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 74 Þis drynke is alteratijf..and it lettiþ fumosite to arise to þe brayn. 1601Holland Pliny II. 325 The fumosities that trouble and dim the eiesight. 1678R. R[ussell] Geber ii. i. i. iii. 28 Their Brain repleat with many Fumosities cannot receive the true Intention.
4. a. The state of fuming or giving off fumes. b. concr. A fumy or vaporous exhalation from anything, a fume; the volatile part given off from a mineral or the like.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 65 Infused with a thick Fumosity congregate Of Water, and alsoe of Erth succended. 1563W. Fulke Meteors (1640) 58 That water receiveth the fumosity of brimstone, and other minerals, thorow which it runneth. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. 1. Eden 620 His burnèd stalks with strong fumosities Of piercing vapours, purge the French disease. 1650Ashmole Chym. Collect. 132 So that Mercury be made hot even to Fumosity. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 31/2 Rain is..an Earthly humor, or fumosities drawn up out of the Water and Earth. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. I. 3/1 Whether the Wind be occasioned by a dry Fumosity of the Earth. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 37 The Red colour happens in perspicuous stones, when a lighted fumosity and a tender fire is infused in a perspicuous light. |