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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.