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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Curiosity \Cu`ri*os"i*ty\ (k[umac]`r[icr]*[ocr]s"[icr]*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Curiosities} (-t[icr]z). [OE. curiouste, curiosite, OF. curioset[82], curiosit[82], F. curiosit[82], fr. L. curiositas, fr. curiosus. See {Curious}, and cf. {Curio}.] 1. The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] --Bacon. When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity. --Shak. A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity. --Evelin. 2. Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. --Milton. 3. That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention. We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town. --Addison. There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc. --Bacon. | |
