obesityn.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Obesité, obesitie.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 12 Those that feare obesity, that is, would not waxe grosse.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 53 By the dryness we describe the gracility or hardness; and by the humidity the plumpness or obesity of the habit of the Body.

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) i. 244 (note) He may justly be called a Martyr to obesity.

1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 68 254 Many writers have perished of literary obesity.

1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 232 The cattle..eat themselves up..into obesity.

1876 A. M. Fairbairn Strauss ii, in Contemp. Rev. June 138 A religion as well as a man may perish through obesity.

1910 Daily Chron. 7 Mar. 9/7 ‘You didn't tell me’, said she, ‘that this splendid medicine is a tonic as well as an obesity cure.’

1955 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 118 18 Apart from suspicions that diet, obesity and lack of physical exercise have something to do with the disease, no great progress is being made towards prevention or cure.

1976 P. Parish Medicines II. viii. 91 Doctors consider that obesity requires treatment when fat deposits have raised the body weight by ten per cent or more above the standards for people of the same age, sex and race.

1999 Independent 21 May ii. 9/3 Research..showed that fidgeting ran in the family, and a lack of it was correlated with a predisposition to obesity in later life.