carnosityn.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > pulpiness or mushiness
carnosity1533
mash1630
pulp1801
pulpiness1818
mushiness1868
1533 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe i. 2 Carnositie or fleshynes, etc.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xv. iii. 431 They erre..that they suppose an Oliue the more grown it is in carnositie, to be the fuller of oile.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Oooo3v Their [sc. Golden Apples] carnosity is very sapid and sweet.
2. † b. figurative. Obsolete.
a. A morbid fleshy growth, a caruncle.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun]
carnosity1559
outwaxing1562
mandrake1568
excrescence1578
sarcome1626
excrescency1641
glandule1656
sarcoma1657
superexcrescence1676
caruncle1722
wart1774
clavus1842
growth1849
adenoid1855
neoplasm1863
neoplasma1876
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 280 If an eye be diseased with blerednes..or any swelling carnosity bred upon it.
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbb2/1 What's good for a carnosity in the Bladder?
1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 328 Strictures and carnosities of the urethra.
1810 Encycl. Brit. V. 189 Carnosities are very difficult of cure.
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1613 H. Spelman De non temerandis Ecclesiis (1668) 105 Overgrown with so hard a carnosity, as it requireth strong and potent corrosives to make an entrance.
1689 N. Lee Princess of Cleve iv. i Your thoughts are swell'd with a Carnosity.
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