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obesity
(əʊˈbiːsɪtɪ, older -ˈbɛsɪtɪ)
[ad. L. obēsitās, f. obēs-us obese: cf. F. obésité.]
The condition of being obese; excessive fatness or corpulence.
1611Cotgr., Obesité, obesitie. 1620Venner Via Recta Introd. 12 Those that feare obesity, that is, would not waxe grosse. 1728Pope Dunc. i. Notes (1736) 110 He may justly be called a martyr to obesity. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 156 The cattle..eat themselves up..into obesity.
fig.1812W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVIII. 254 Many writers have perished of literary obesity. 1876Fairbairn Strauss ii. in Contemp. Rev. June 138 A religion as well as a man may perish through obesity. |