† Fumosity

Obs. [ad. F. fumosité or med.L. fūmōsitās: see FUMOSE, FUMOUS, and -ITY.]

  1.  The quality of being full of fumes or vapors.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. vi. (1495), 607. For fumosyte of the stomacke greuyth the heed and makyth it ake.

c. 1570.  Pride & Lowl. (1841), 5. Engendering in the head fumositie.

1652.  J. Wadsworth, trans. Colmenero’s Chocolate, 19. Benzoin the Head frees from Fumosity.

  2.  The flatulent quality of various articles of food; the heady quality of wine, etc.

c. 1460.  J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 105.

1542.  Boorde, Dyetary, x. (1870), 254. Bycause wyne is full of fumosyte.

  b.  Ill-smelling breath; smell of food or drink in the breath.

c. 1530.  H. Rhodes, Bk. Nurture, 230. Belche thou neare to no mans face with a corrupt fumosytye.

1558.  Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr., 83 b. Rubbe your teeth well within and withoute, to take awaye the fumositie of the meate.

  3.  Vaporous humour rising into the head from the stomach.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Sqr.’s T., 358 Ful were hir hedes of fumositee.

c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 74. Þis drynke is alteratijf … and it lettiþ fumosite to arise to þe brayn.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 325. As for goats gall, there be that vse it many waies prepared; some with hony, against the fumosities that trouble and dim the eie-sight.

1678.  R. R[ussell], Geber, II. I. I. iii. 28. Their Brain, repleat with many Fumosities, cannot receive the true Intention of Natural Things.

  4.  a. The state of fuming or giving off fumes. b. concr. A fumy or vaporous exhalation from anything, a fume; the volatile part given off from a mineral or the like.

1477.  Norton, Ord. Alch., v., in Ashm. (1652), 65. Infused with a thick Fumosity congregate Of Water, and alsoe of Erth succended.

1563.  W. Fulke, Meteors (1640), 58. That water receiveth the fumosity of Brimstone, and other Minerals, thorow which it runneth, and so filleth the brain as wine doth.

1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. I. Eden, 620. His burnèd stalks with strong fumosities Of piercing vapours, purge the French disease.

1650.  Ashmole, Chym. Collect., 132. So that Mercury be made hot even to Fumosity.

1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 31/2. Rain is a cold vapour, an Earthly humor, or fumosities drawn up out of the Water & Earth.

1726.  Leoni, trans. Alberti’s Archit., I. 3/1. Whether the Wind be occasioned by a dry Fumosity of the Earth.

1750.  trans. Leonardus’ Mirr. Stones, 37. The Red Colour, we say, happens in perspicuous Stones, when a lighted Fumosity and a tender Fire is infused in a perspicuous Light.