aqueity

English

Etymology

aqueous + -ity

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈkwiːɪti/

Noun

aqueity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being watery.
    • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: [] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, [], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      The aqueity, Terreity, and sulphureity
      Shall run together again, and all be annulled

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for aqueity in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

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