flatuosity

English

Etymology

Compare French flatuosité.

Noun

flatuosity (countable and uncountable, plural flatuosities)

1. (obsolete) flatulence
   • 1600, Richard Surflet, Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme:

     It attenuateth […] crude and colde humours, and flatuosities abounding in flegmatike and melancholicke persons.

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The fourth cause is flatuosity : for wind stirred moveth to expel : and we find that ( in effect ) all purgers have in them a raw spirit or wind ; which is the principal cause of tortion in the stomach and belly

   • 1675, J.Love, Clavis Med.:

     Remove that flatuosity, which is the cause of thy Disease.

References

• “flatuosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.