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ˈsiccity ? Obs.
[ad. L. siccitas, f. siccus dry: see -ity. So F. siccité (1425), It. siccità.]
Dryness; absence of moisture.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 62 It is humor sollid constant with siccitie. Ibid. 76 Thick Liquor with us hath siccity. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. (1653) 96 The eating of much salt..breeds barrennesse to mans body by the extream siccity thereof. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 288 Those sands, which a long calme disunites by reason of their siccitie. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Epid. 172 The reason some..attempt to make out from the siccity and drines of its flesh. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 328 An undeniable Argument of its Frigidity, and thence a farther concomitant of its Siccity. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geogr. III. 186 If the blood retains its siccity, the people are struck with terror. 1782European Mag. II. 350 Heat is the common property of fire and air,..siccity of earth and fire. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 290 This must..express not physical siccity, but that unfruitfulness which in the desert results from want of moisture. |