mordicancy

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English

Etymology

From mordicant +‎ -cy.

Noun

mordicancy (uncountable)

(obsolete) A biting quality; corrosiveness.
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. , London: Jo Martyn, and Ja Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, , →OCLC:
  the Mordicancy thus allay'd , be lure to make the Mortar very clean

References

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

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