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latitancy|ˈlætɪtənsɪ|
[f. next: see -ancy.]
The state of lying concealed or hid; spec. in Phys. and Path (see quots.). Of an animal: Hibernation.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 163 [The Cameleon] by reason of its..latitancy in the winter..will long subsist without a visible sustentation. Ibid. iv. xiii. 223 By this way Aristotle through all his books of Animals, distinguisheth their times of generation, latitancy, migration, sanity, and venation. 1701Beverley Apoc. Quest. 37 If we can find according to Prophecy there ought to be such a Latitancy, or Secrecy of the Papacy. 1888Syd. Soc. Lex., Latitancy,..A term expressive of the hypothesis that the ovum and the spermatozoa lie in wait for each other, as it were, after insemination. 1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Latitancy, the condition of lying in wait, of waiting for development under favorable circumstances. |