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vinosity|vaɪˈnɒsɪtɪ|
Also 7 vinocitie.
[ad. L. vīnōsitās (Tertullian), the flavour of wine, f. vīnōs-us: see prec. and -ity. So OF. and F. vinosité, It. vinosità, Sp. vinosidad, Pg. vinosidade.]
1. The state or quality of being vinous; vinous character or flavour.
1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 33 Vessels of Oyles and Aromaticall Liquors... And some yet retaining a Vinosity and spirit in them, which if any have tasted they have farre exceeded the Palats of Antiquity. [Hence in Blount Glossogr. (1661).] 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) II. 210 If we consider, how necessary fermentation is to the vinosity of the liquor. 1757A. Cooper Distiller i. ii. (1760) 20 It is common with Distillers, in order to..give it a particular Flavour, or improve its Vinosity. 1843Tizard Brewing 465 The vinosity and mellowness [of vinous liquors] are at the same time improved. 1889Pall Mall G. 20 July, A Médoc wine-taster can tell at a sip what sort of ground a bottle of wine has grown in;..that grown on a stony layer is marked by greater body and vinosity. 1890O. Crawfurd Round Calendar 195 All the rich and subtle chemistry of vinosity, which help to cheer and sustain the body.
2. Fondness for, addiction to, wine.
1624Heywood Gunaik. vii. 348 The souldiers..reprooving his intemperate vinositie. Ibid. ix. 441 Riots, Reuels, Banquets, Pride, Surfets, Vinocitie, Voracitie. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 486 Aristophanes himself, notwithstanding his jokes on the vinosity of Cratinus, is said in Athenæus to have been well primed with wine when he sat down to write. |