siccity

To the preservation of life the natural heat is most requisite, though siccity and humidity, and those first qualities, be not excluded.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

For thirst is increased by eating for this reason, because that meat by its natural siccity contracts and destroys all that small quantity of moisture which remained scattered here and there through the body; just as happens in things obvious to our senses; we see the earth, dust, and the like presently suck in the moisture that is mixed with them.

Symposiacs 2004

For thirst is increased by eating for this reason, because that meat by its natural siccity contracts and destroys all that small quantity of moisture which remained scattered here and there through the body; just as happens in things obvious to our senses; we see the earth, dust, and the like presently suck in the moisture that is mixed with them.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

“We first had a feeling of siccity in the pharynx, then intolerable pains at the epigastrium, super purgation, coma.”

Madame Bovary 2003

How they manage to acquire so much sap amidst the surrounding siccity is inexplicable, unless it is that they possess the function of absorbing and condensing moisture by an unusual and unknown method.

Arizona Sketches 1887

Only by extreme siccity is such land possible when more water rises in evaporation than falls by precipitation.

Arizona Sketches 1887

Sometimes easier words are changed into harder; as, burial, into sepulture or interment; dry [2], into desiccative; dryness, into siccity or aridity; fit, into paroxism; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can never be translated into one more easy. '

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

"We first had a feeling of siccity in the pharynx, then intolerable pains at the epigastrium, super purgation, coma."

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850

Thus some explanations are unavoidably reciprocal or circular, as _hind, the female of the stag; stag, the male of the hind_: sometimes easier words are changed into harder, as _burial_ into _sepulture, or interment, drier_ into _desiccative, dryness_ into _siccity_ or

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

In so great a siccity of devotion as we see in these days, we have a thousand and a thousand colleges that pass it over commodiously enough, expecting every day their dinner from the liberality of Heaven.

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 07 Michel de Montaigne 1562