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語源 1

From Latin extantia, exstantia.

名詞

extancy (複数形 extancies)

1. (obsolete) The state of rising above others; a projection.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Evelyn to this entry?)

   • 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations upon Cold

     […] great Quantities of Ice, for whereas in small fragments or plates, the Ice, though it sink not to the bottom of the water, will of∣tentimes sink so low in it, as scarce to leave any part evidently extant above the surface of the water, in vast quantities of Ice, that extancy is sometimes so conspicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to Island, Greenland, and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Masts.

語源 2

extant +‎ -cy; ultimately the same formation as Etymology 1.

名詞

extancy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state of being extant; existence.