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- noun Plural form of
flatulency .
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Examples
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The stomach and bowels being weakened by the above causes, windy complaints or flatulencies are consequently produced.
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These also excite the appetite, by stimulating the natural progress of the chyle, and thus prevent its too rapid fermentation of its spirituous parts into windy flatulencies.
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I pass restless and uneasy nights, harassed with convulsions of my breast, and flatulencies at my stomach; and restless nights make heavy days.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Indian conflicts to be mere barbaric brawls, unworthy of the pen which has recorded the classic war of Fort Christina; and as to these Helderberg commotions, they are among the flatulencies which from time to time afflict the bowels of this ancient province, as with a wind-colic, and which I deem it seemly and decent to pass over in silence.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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This is likewise the foundation of stomach complaints, flatulencies, and all other symptoms of indigestion; which more frequently proceed from intemperance in eating and drinking than any other cause.
A Lecture on the Preservation of Health Thomas Garnett 1784
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I pass restless and uneasy nights, harassed with convulsions of my breast, and flatulencies at my stomach; and restless nights make heavy days.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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From the quiescence of the intestinal canal a loss of appetite and flatulencies proceed.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Altho '_magnesia_ appears from this history of it to be a very innocent medicine, yet having observed, that some hypochondriacs who used it frequently, were subject to flatulencies and spasms, he seems to have suspected it of some noxious quality.
Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances Joseph Black 1763
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