[ad. med.L. turbiditās (Albertus Magnus, c. 1255), f. L. turbidus TURBID; see -ITY.] = TURBIDNESS.

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1782.  Kirwan, in Phil. Trans., LXXX. 215. Dr. Priestley, in a similar experiment, did not observe this turbidity.

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1845.  G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 323. The serum … exhibited a remarkable milk white turbidity.

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1862.  Tyndall, Mountaineer., iii. 25. No mist or turbidity interferes with the sharpness of the outlines.

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1868.  Visct. Strangford, Select. (1869), II. 306. A dense circumfluous atmosphere of intellectual turbidity, of ignorance, of gross superstition.

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1888.  Rutley, Rock-Forming Min., 127. Any turbidity or milkiness which a crystal may exhibit.

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