Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The abstract essential qualities of water; wateriness as a quality.
- noun The state of being aquose or watery; moisture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness.
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- noun rare The condition of being
watery ;wateriness
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Examples
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As Huxley points out, it is no more justifiable to postulate the existence of a vitalistic principle in protoplasm than it would be to set up an "aquosity" to account for the properties of water, or a "saltness" for the qualities of a certain combination of sodium and chlorine.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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"aquosity" entered into and took possession of the oxidated hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoar-frost.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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a wonder of wonders, endowed with "aquosity," the ultimate nature of which is as inscrutable now as it was to Aristotle!
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"aquosity" entered into and took possession of the oxidated hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoar-frost.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"aquosity" entered into and took possession of the oxide of hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoar-frost.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"aquosity" entered into and took possession of the oxidated hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoarfrost.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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We do not assume that a something called “aquosity” entered into and took possession of the oxidated hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoar-frost.
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The kidneys through the emulgent veins draw that aquosity from thence which you call urine, and there send it away through the ureters to be slipped downwards; where, in a lower receptacle, and proper for it, to wit, the bladder, it is kept, and stayeth there until an opportunity to void it out in his due time.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The kidneys through the emulgent veins draw that aquosity from thence which you call urine, and there send it away through the ureters to be slipped downwards; where, in a lower receptacle, and proper for it, to wit, the bladder, it is kept, and stayeth there until an opportunity to void it out in his due time.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The powers of observation and experiment having increased, it became possible by scientific test and analysis to satisfy the desire for a more immediate knowledge, and thus to discover, for example, that water is water, not because it possesses the form of _aquosity_, as the
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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