CRUDITY
\kɹˈuːdɪti], \kɹˈuːdɪti], \k_ɹ_ˈuː_d_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of CRUDITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
By Princeton University
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an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The state or condition of being without maturity, culture, or taste; an instance of this lack.
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Rawness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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This has received several acceptations. 1. It expresses the quality of certain aliments, which have not experienced the action of fire. 2. The condition of matters in the digestive tube, which have not undergone the digestive changes- cruditas ventriculi; and, 3. In the language of the Humorists, it means the condition of the morbific matter in a sick individual, cruditas morbi, when it has not yet been prepared or concocted by the action of the organs- Azymia humorum.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. The condition of being crude; rawness; —that which is crude; an imperfect conception; immature plan.
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Indigestion, inconcoction, unripeness, want of maturity.
By Thomas Sheridan
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