Fatness dictionary definition

fatness

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural fatnesses)

Origin

From Middle English, from Old English fǣtnes (“fatness, the richest part of anything”), equivalent to fat +‎ -ness.

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BMI, or body mass index, is a reliable indicator of healthy weight and body fatness in most adults.
The worm attacked presents the following symptoms: the skin is distended as if swollen, is rather thin and shiny, and the body of the worm seems to have increased, that is, it suffers from fatness, or is engraisse, hence its name.
The main point seems to be a tendency to slackness, fatness and excess of humours.
The holy oil, chrism, or µvpov, as the Easterns call it, was prepared and consecrated on Maundy Thursday, and in the Gelasian sacramentary the formula used runs thus: "Send forth, 0 Lord, we beseech thee, thy Holy Spirit the Paraclete from heaven into this fatness of oil, which thou hast deigned to bring forth out of the green wood for the refreshing of mind and body; and through thy holy benediction may it be for all who anoint with it, taste it, touch it, a safeguard of mind and body, of soul and spirit, for the expulsion of all pains, of every infirmity, of every sickness of mind and body.

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