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† ˈfeculency Obs.
Also 7 feculancy, fœculency.
[ad. L. fæculentia: see prec. and -ency.]
1. = feculence 1.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋85 Mortality, feculency, and turbulency. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. viii. 122 Nothing of impure sulphureous fœculency. 1679J. Goodman Penit. Pardoned iii. v. (1713) 347 Spiritual Bodies..raised and sublimed from this drossy feculency.
2. = feculence 2; lit. and fig. In pl. Impurities.
1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 811, I cold never as yet finde..drossy matter, or other feculency. 1655–87H. More App. Antid. (1712) 215 The feculency of urine, that sinks to the bottom of the glass. 1680Boyle Scept. Chem. vi. 418 That crust or dry feculancy..called Tartar. 1772Jackson in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 6 The reciprocal attraction of the particles of isinglass and the feculencies of the beer. 1822Burrowes Cycl. X. 287/1 The liquor sometimes thickens too fast to permit the feculencies to rise in the scum. |
