cecutiency

English

Etymology

From Latin caecutire (“to be blind”), from caecus (“blind”).

Noun

cecutiency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Partial blindness, or a tendency toward blindness.
   • (Can we date this quote by Browne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xviii. 152 There is in them [moles] no cecity, yet more then a cecutiency.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cecutiency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)