fumosityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fumosity (usually uncountable, plural fumosities)

1. The 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.

2. (obsolete) The fumes or vapor of alcoholic drink.

Further reading

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