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corpulency|ˈkɔːpjʊlənsɪ|
Also 6–7 -cie.
[ad. L. corpulentia: see prec. and -ency.]
†1. Bigness of body; size, bulk. Obs.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde (1564) 19 b, Of equal corpulencie or bygnesse. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 597 The soule of a great man is not greater then the soule of a little man, in regard of corpulency. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 121 The dogge..for the keeping of the Farme, must be of grosse and great corpulencie.
2. = corpulence 2.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 896 The Drones..by reason of unwieldinesse, or corpulency of their bodies. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. x. 204 They are generally fat..and ranck of the savours which attend upon sluttish corpulency. 1791Boswell Johnson 28 Apr. an. 1783, Talking of a man who was grown very fat, so as to be incommoded with corpulency. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. 257 The king's health was growing visibly weaker; his corpulency was increasing.
†b. concr. Obs.
1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 246 Wipe your fat corpulencies out of our light.
†3. Material quality or substance, density. Obs.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 191 This meat [Manna] had no corpulencie to fatten them. 1643Hammond Serm. vii. Wks. 1684 IV. 516 Men..phansie God µεθ' ὕλης, with matter and corpulency. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies viii. (1658) 67 Flame..being mixed with smoke and other corpulency. 1691Ray Creation i. (1701) 169 The heaviness and corpulency of the Water. |