siccity

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Dryness.
 * , Book I, New York, 2001, page 156:
 * To the preservation of life the natural heat is most requisite, though siccity and humiditybe not excluded.
 * 1) * 1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act III., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 431:
 * so long as the polar heavens regulate the movement of the Northern Bear, and preserve it, in its siccity (the Bears are called "siccæ", or dry, as they never set)
 * so long as the polar heavens regulate the movement of the Northern Bear, and preserve it, in its siccity (the Bears are called "siccæ", or dry, as they never set)