[ad. F. lividité or late L. līvidītās, f. līvidus, LIVID.] The quality or condition of being livid; a pale-bluish discoloration.
1477. Norton, Ord. Alch., v. in Ashm. (1652), 65. This Waun Colour called Lividitie, In Envious Men useth much to be.
1611. Cotgr., Lividité, liuiditie, lewnesse [etc.].
1731. Arbuthnot, Aliments (1735), 207. The Signs of a Tendency to such a State, are Darkness or Lividity of the Countenance [etc.].
1876. Trans. Clinical Soc., IX. 189. There was no lividity of lips or cheeks.
1885. Miss Braddon, Wyllard’s Weird, II. 58. A shade more livid than the normal lividity of the complexion.
1900. J. Hutchinson, in Arch. Surg., V. 207. The lividity of the hands … was never attended by algidity.
