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Webster 1913 Edition

(ĭn-kû′vĭ-ty̆)

Noun.

[From L.

incurvus

bent. See

A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

[L. incurvus.] A state of being bent or crooked; crookedness; a bending inward.

incurvity ‎(usually uncountable, plural incurvities)

(obsolete) The quality of being bent inwards.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 428:
  being the Hieroglyphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bow