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† ˈcurvity Obs.
[ad. L. curvitās (or a. F. curvité, Oresme 14th c.), f. curvus curved, crooked.]
1. Curved or bent quality or state; curvature; a curved portion of anything, a curve.
1547Boorde Brev. Health cviii. 41 A backe the which may have many infirmities, as debylytie, and wekenes, curvytie and gybbositie. 1656Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 253 The rectitude or curvity of the lines. 1705Phil. Trans. XXV. 2062 The divers flexures and curvities of the Serpent. 1715Machin in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 269 [I] have added a rule for finding the curvity. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) I. iii. 42 According to their more or less curvity.
2. fig. Moral obliquity, crookedness of conduct.
1616Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent (1676) 166 The whole nature of man..remained crooked; not by the curvity of Adam, but by his own. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. iii. 82 That there is as much positivity of Relation in disobedience as in obedience, in curvity as in rectitude. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 136 That God be the motor..of the action..but not of the obliquitie or curvitie in acting. |