[ad. med.L. aquōsitāt-em, n. of quality f. aquōsus: see prec. and -ITY.]

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  1.  Moist or watery quality, wateriness.

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1528.  Paynell, Salerne Reg., P ij b. Of moche aquosite and humidite.

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1650.  trans. Bacon’s Hist. Life & Death, 38. To weare next the Body, Garments that have in them, some Vnctuosity, or Oleosity, not Aquosity.

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1868.  Huxley, Phys. Basis Life, 140. What better philosophical status has ‘vitality’ than aquosity?

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  † 2.  concr. Moisture, humour. Obs.

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1528.  Paynell, Salerne Reg., Q iij. Ventosites and aquosites engendred of peres.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 51. [Purslane is] … good for the aquosities gathered within the body.

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1720.  W. Gibson, Dispens., § 16 (1734), 301. Boil to the consumption of the aquosity, that is, till the watry parts are evaporated.

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