Obs. [ad. F. flatuosité, f. flatueux: see FLATUOUS and -ITY.] The state or condition of being ‘flatuous.’
1. = FLATULENCE 2.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, VI. xxii. 777. As much as it attenuateth … crude and colde humours, and flatuosities abounding in flegmatike and melancholicke persons, it becommeth a most excellent drinke.
1675. J. Love, Clavis Medicinæ, 45. This will cleanse the Body of those Humours, and remove that flatuosity, which is the cause of thy Disease [Gout].
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Apoplexy.… It is Material, when caused either by the Blood, Phlegm, Melancholy, Flatuosity, or Choler; but this seldom happens. It has its Seat in the Brain.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Flatuosity, flatulence, the development of gas in the interior of the body.
b. Tendency to cause flatulence.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 49. 2/1. It is doubtless added to windy aliments, to correct their flatuosity, and blunt their acid crudities, and withal to strengthen the digestive faculty of the stomach.
2. concr. A quantity of wind, air, or gas.
1597. Lowe, Chirurg. (1634), 108. Oedema, which is, the flatuosities dispersed in other parts musculous.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 21. If this flatuositie [L. flatus] or vapour doe struggle and wrestle within the cloud, from thence it commeth that thunderclaps be heard; but if it breake through still burning, then flieth out the thunderbolt: if it be longer time a strugling, and cannot pierce through, then leams and flashes are seene.
