[f. as prec. on regular analogy of sbs. in -NCY.] The tendency to become alkaline; slight alkaline character.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 333. Disorders spring from an alcalescency of the humours.
1809. Pearson, in Phil. Trans., XCIX. 338. Affording no signs of alkalescency.
1826. Paris, Diet, § 126 (1828), 146. Writers on dietetics have descanted very learnedly upon what they please to term the … alkalescency of certain aliments.
