fixidity

English

Noun

fixidity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being fixed.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:

     Sometimes the bodies mingled by the fire are differing enough as to fixidity and volatility , and yet are so combined by the first operation of the fire , that itself does scarce afterwards separate them

   • 1762, Anton Friedrich Buesching, A New System of Geography:

     Among the baſe metals, Copper retains its fixidity the longeſt in the fire next to Iron

See also

• fixity

References

• “fixidity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.