flatuosity

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English

Etymology

Compare French flatuosité.

Noun

flatuosity (countable and uncountable, plural flatuosities)

(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 ; rinted by J H 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.

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