Meanings
plural fumosities
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being fumous.
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[O]f meate vndigeſted, procedeth fumoſytie groſſe and vndygeſted, which aſcendynge vp into the heed, and touchynge the ryme, wherin the brayne is wrapped, cauſeth heed ache, […] Fynally, the ſayd fumoſitie, ingendred of repletion, percynge the innermoſt parte of the ſayd ſynewes, called ſenſible, it greuouſly annoyeth the power animall, there conſyſtynge, by the occaſion wherof, vnderſtandynge and reſon, as to the vſe of theym, are let and troubled.
153[9], Thomas Elyot, “Of Replecion”, in The Castel of Helth […], London: […] Thomæ Bertheleti […], →OCLC, book III, folios 54, recto – 54, verso
Origin
- Old Frenchfumosité
- Middle Englishfumosite
- Englishfumosity
From Middle English fumosite, from Old French fumosité.
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