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† ˈextancy Obs.
[f. as prec.: see -ancy.]
The fact, quality, or state of standing out or being protuberant; also concr. a protuberance.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxv. (1658) 284 When water falleth out of the skie, it hath all the little corners or extancies of its body grated off by the air. 1662Evelyn Chalcogr. (1769) 107 One may express to the eye..the relievo or extancie of objects. 1667Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. 36 The little Exstancies by their Figure resisted a little the Motion of our Finger. 1689Evelyn Let. 12 Aug. in Mem. (1889) III. 441 The filing, sharpnes, and due extancie [printed extanic], varnish, & other markes necessary to be critically skill'd in. |