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OSCITATE v.
To gape; to yawn.
OSCITATION n.
The act of yawning or gaping. Addison.
OSTRACITE n.
A fossil oyster.
OVEREXCITE v.
To excite too much.
OVEREXCITEMENT n.
Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
PALMACITE n.
A fossil palm.
PARCITY n.
Sparingless. [Obs.]
PAUCITY n. 2 definitions
Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.
PERIODICITY n.
The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. Henfrey.
PERNICITY n.
Swiftness; celerity. [R.] Ray.
PERSPICACITY n.
The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.
PERTINACITY n.
The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency. Macaulay.
PERVICACITY n.
Obstinacy; pervicaciousness. [Obs.] Bentley.
PETULCITY n.
Wantonness; friskiness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
PHENACITE n.
A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.
PHOTO-ELECTRICITY n.
Electricity produced by light.
PHYCITE n.
See Erythrite, 1.
PISTACITE n.
Epidote.
PLACIT n.
A decree or determination; a dictum. [Obs.] "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
PLACITORY a.
Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. [Obs.] Clayton.
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