单词 | devexity |
释义 | † deˈvexity Obs. Also 7 di-. [ad. L. dēvexitās, f. dēvexus: see devex and -ity.] Downward slope or incline; concavity: see quots.
1601Holland Pliny I. 32 No man doubteth that the water of the sea came euer in any shore so far as the deuexitie would have suffered. Ibid. 34 So far as the other deuexitie or fall of the earth. 1611Cotgr., Devexité, deuexitie; a hollownesse, bowing, bending, hanging double. a1618Davies Wittes Pilgrimage (1876) 30 (D.) His haire..Doth glorifie that Heau'n's Divexity, His head. 1656Blount Glossogr., Devexity, the hollowness of a valley, a bending down. 1678in Phillips. 1775in Ash. |

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