spissituden.
/ˈspɪsɪtjuːd/ Density, thickness, compactness.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun]
fastness?a1200
spissitudec1440
solidiousness1495
grossness1527
massiveness1530
substantialness1530
substantiality1535
crassness1545
massiness1559
stiffness1577
spissness1598
solidness1600
density1603
solidity1603
crassitude1604
condensity1611
thightness1615
compactedness1644
compactness1646
body1647
crassities1659
denseness1669
tightnessa1728
corporeity1750
substantiability1816
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 479 With walkers cley is salt so doon therto, The spissitude of hit to ha fordone.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 611 For all the spissitude and thicknesse that they seeme to haue, they admit gently our sight to pierce into their bottome.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xiv. 103 In the Joynt must not remain any spissitude or grossness when it is almost healed.
1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 213 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. Spirits may have a contracted spissitude which is not Penetrable.
1722 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 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.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 235 It..may be given with success in most diseases arising from a lentor, or spissitude of the juices.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 7 The relative spissitude..ascribed to these tunics.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 927 To produce a proper spissitude of stuff for making paper.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Spissitie, thicknesse.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Spissity, thickness, grossness. [Also in Phillips, etc.]
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