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from The Century Dictionary.

noun The quality of flying off in fumes of vapor, or of being volatile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun obsolete The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor.

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noun obsolete, rare The capability of flying off in fumes or vapour.

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Colours; as all of them do effumability, as they speak.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

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