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Webster 1913 Edition


Crudity

Cru′di-ty

(krṳ′dĭ-ty̆)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Crudities
(-tĭz)
.
[L.
cruditas
, fr.
crudus
: cf. F.
crudité
. See
Crude
.]
1.
The condition of being crude; rawness.
2.
That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
Crudities in the stomach.”
Arbuthnot.

Webster 1828 Edition


Crudity

CRUDITY

,
Noun.
[L.] Rawness; crudeness. Among physicians, undigested substances in the stomach; or unconcocted humors, not well prepared for expulsion; excrements. In the latter senses, it admits of the plural.

Definition 2024


crudity

crudity

English

Noun

crudity (countable and uncountable, plural crudities)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being crude.
  2. (countable) A crude act or characteristic.
    • 1889, Oscar Wilde, "The Decay Of Lying: An Observation,"
      What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
  3. (obsolete, medicine) Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.1.2:
      For there is no meat whatsoever, though otherwise wholesome and good, but if unseasonably taken, or immoderately used, more than the stomach can well bear, it will engender crudity and do much harm.

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