Obs. rare. [ad. med.L. terreitās (c. 1250 in Vincent of Beauvais, Spec. Doctr., XII. 109): see -ITY. So obs. It. terreità (Florio, 1598).] The essential quality of earth; earthiness.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. v. The Aqueitie, Terreitie and Sulphureitie Shall runne together againe, and all be annull’d.
1757. trans. Henckel’s Pyritol., 114. Such a body as returns not to its universal terreity, but is arrived to a more heightened degree of metalliety.
