Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being styptic; astringency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.
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- noun The quality or state of being
styptic ;astringency .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eat a little of this quince-pie; it is very proper and convenient for the shutting up of the orifice of the ventricle of the stomach, because of a kind of astringent stypticity which is in that sort of fruit, and is helpful to the first concoction.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Eat a little of this quince-pie; it is very proper and convenient for the shutting up of the orifice of the ventricle of the stomach, because of a kind of astringent stypticity which is in that sort of fruit, and is helpful to the first concoction.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Eat a little of this quince-pie; it is very proper and convenient for the shutting up of the orifice of the ventricle of the stomach, because of a kind of astringent stypticity which is in that sort of fruit, and is helpful to the first concoction.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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