[f. next: see -ENCY.]
1. = FLATULENCE 2. Also an instance of this.
1660. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 159. They discussing their flatulency by garrulity.
1731. Arbuthnot, Aliments, v. (1735), 140. The most sure Sign of a deficient Perspiration is Flatulency, or Wind.
1757. A. Cooper, Distiller, II. viii. (1760), 135. Cinnamon is a noble drug, endured with many capital virtures; it strengthens the viscera, assists concoction, dispels flatulencies, and is a pleasant cardiac.
1806. D. Forbes, in Med. Jrnl., XV. April, 367. A person violently afflicted with a colic, swallowed a glass of ardent spirits, from which he experienced almost instantaneous relief, as his disease originated from flatulency.
1858. Copland, Dict. Pract. Med., I. 1043. Flatulency…. An undue formation and accumulation of air in the stomach or intestines, with frequent rejection of it.
b. Tendency to cause flatulence.
1599. H. Buttes, Dyets drie Dinner, E viij. Other referre it to their [Beanes’] flatulencie, whereby they prouoke to lechery.
2. = FLATULENCE 3.
1662. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm. (1669), 343/2. By prayer the Christians enjoyments are sanctified, and the flatulency of them which puffs up others into pride, is corrected.
c. 1698. Locke, Cond. Underst., xxii. This is the Effect of Ignorance and not Knowledge, the being vainly puff’d up with a Flatulency, arising from a weak and narrow Comprehension.
