[ad. med.L. succulentia, f. succulentus: see next and -ENCY.] = prec.
1616. Donne, Serm., Prov. xxii. 11 (1661), III. 330. Pith and marrow to give a succulencie, and nourishment, even to the bones, to the strength and obduration of sin.
a. 1620. J. Dyke, Sel. Serm. (1640), 271. The … chewing of the meate … expresses … the juyce and succulency of it.
1664. Beale, in Evelyn’s Pomona, 25. [Quinces] will bear with some degrees of hungry land, if they be supplied with a due measure of succulency, and neighbouring moisture.
1738. Kinneir, Ess. Nerves, 55. The succulency of the Nerves in a healthy man, depends upon the goodness and due quantity of the blood, that enters the vessels of the brain.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1816), I. 321. These branches … are … exposed to the open air under a shed, where from their succulency they [sc. cochineal insects] continue to live for several months.
1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 437. The nature of the changes intended to be made on them by cultivation, such as blanching, succulency, magnitude, &c.
1890. H. M. Stanley, Darkest Africa, II. xxx. 297. The grass was void of succulency and nutriment.
