calidity

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin caliditās, whence the Italian calidità. Compare calid.

Noun

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calidity (usually uncountable, plural calidities)

  1. (obsolete) Heat.
    • 1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Cockatrice”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: [], London: [] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 124:
      The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, []

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