Obs. [f. as prec.: see -ANCY.] The fact, quality or state of standing out or being protuberant; also concr. a protuberance.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxv. (1658), 284. When water falleth out of the skie, it hath all the little corners or extancies of its body grated off by the air.
1662. Evelyn, Chalcogr. (1769), 107. One may express to the eye … the relievo or extancie of objects.
1667. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual., 36. The little Exstancies by their Figure resisted a little the Motion of our Finger.
1689. Evelyn, Lett., 12 Aug. in Mem. (1889), III. 441. The filing, sharpnes, and due extancie [printed extanic], varnish, & other markes necessary to be critically skill’d in.
