Meanings
- formalobsoleterareuncountableThe state or quality of being crebrous; close succession; frequency of occurrence; numerosity.
The immoderate crebrity of the pulse is a sign of a syncope.
1710, John Floyer, The Physicians Pulse-Watch - Or an Essay to Explain the Old Art of Feeling of the Pulse, Kaiserliche Hofbibliothek Publishing, page 1742 more examples
The two outward circles do not hinder the sight, but add much to the solemnity of the place and the duties, by the crebrity and variety of their intervals.
1740, William Stukeley, Stonehenge: A Temple Restored to the British Druids,, (unpaginated)And this we conceive more than sufllicient evidence of the verity of the first part of our thesis; that a Sound is not generated in the air by the velocity, but crebrity of motion.
1966, Walter Charleton & Robert Hugh Kargon, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, Johnson Reprint Corporation - The Michigan State University Press, page 223
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