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stypticity|stɪpˈtɪsɪtɪ| Forms: 5–6 stipticite, (6 styp-), 6–7 stipticitie, 7–8 -ty, 7 stypticitie, 7– stypticity. [ad. med.L. stypticitās, f. styptic-us styptic a. Cf. F. stypticité (14th c. in Littré).] 1. Styptic quality; astringency.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 98 Þe sensibilyte of þe tonge ys by way of tastynge & sauour, And þarof er ix maneres; Swetnesse, bitternesse,..ponticite, stipticite, [etc.]. 1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters O j, Dronke of the same water [of crab-apples] stoppeth the laske with his styptycite. 1575J. Banister Treat. Chyrurg. 134 b, Consolidatiua. By their stipticitie and drying they haue power to skinne and heale, equally incarnating fleshe and skinne. 1666Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 218 Qualities..such as are Properties peculiar to it [Vitriol], as Greenness, easiness of Fusion, Stypticity of Tast. 1702Floyer Cold Bathing i. 22 Marle-Waters taste smooth, and have a little Stipticity. 1772Phil. Trans. LXII. 462 The spring possesses some slight degree of stypticity, by means of a chalybeate impregnation. 1834T. J. Graham Dom. Med. (1844) 181 The gentle stypticity, or astringency in genuine claret, renders it..the most wholesome of any strong liquor. †2. Costiveness (of the stomach or bowels). Obs.
1620Venner Via Recta viii. 190 If it [the stomach] be subiect to laxitie, then a lesse portion of drinke; if to stypticitie, then a greater is to be assumed. |