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spissitude|ˈspɪsɪtjuːd|
[ad. L. spissitūdo, f. spissus spiss a. Cf. It. spessitudine.]
Density, thickness, compactness.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. xii. 479 With walkers cley is salt so doon therto, The spissitude of hit to ha fordone. 1601Holland Pliny I. 611 For all the spissitude and thicknesse that they seeme to haue, they admit gently our sight to pierce into their bottome. 1658A. Fox Würtz' Surg. ii. xiv. 103 In the Joynt must not remain any spissitude or grossness when it is almost healed. 1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 213 Spirits may have a contracted spissitude which is not Penetrable. 1720Halley in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 3 The great strength of their native Light, forming the resemblance of a Body, when it is nothing else but the spissitude of their Rays. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 235 It may be given with success in most diseases arising from a lentor or spissitude of the juices. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 17 The relative spissitude..ascribed to the elastic and muscular arterial coats. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 927 To produce a proper spissitude of stuff for making paper.
So † ˈspissity [ad. L. spissitās]. Obs.—0
1623Cockeram i, Spissitie, thicknesse. [Also in Blount, Phillips, etc.] |