stypticitas

stypticitas [CL stypticus+-tas] 1 state of having been treated with alum (or other mordant, so as to be receptive to dye), receptiveness to dye. tingunt pannos ‥ quia jam susceperunt ab alumine stipticitatem qua colores susceptos conservant Quaest. Salern. B 164. 2 astringency, propensity to constrict or constipate. b bitterness. stipticitas ‥ interius coadjuvat non ad laxandum sed ad laxata expellenda Quaest. Salern. P 83. b a terra ‥ sortiuntur [sc. cottana] grossitionem, unde contrahunt stipticitatem, unde stomaco sunt confortantia Quaest. Salern. B 148; ponticitas nihil aliud est quam remissa stipticitas Gilb. III 161v. 2; ponticitas est intensa stipticitas Bart. Angl. XIX 49; sunt species [saporis] dulcedo, amaritudo ‥ ponticitas, stipticitas, et acuitas Bacon V 133; ponticitas et ‥ stipticitas Ib. XIV 97.

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