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▪ I. condiment, n.|ˈkɒndɪmənt|
Also 5 condyment.
[a. F. condiment, ad. L. condīment-um, f. condī-re to preserve, pickle: see condite a.1]
Anything of pronounced flavour used to season or give relish to food, or to stimulate the appetite.
(Some medical writers class tea, coffee, alcoholic drinks, as condiments; but they are not ordinarily so called.)
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xi. 503 This condyment is esy and jocounde. Ibid. xii. 351 This moone is made olyve in condyment. 1626Bacon Sylva §630 As for Raddish, and Tarragon..they are for Condiments. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxii, Many things are swallowed by animals..for condiment, gust or medicament. 1828Scott F.M. Perth ii, He proceeded to spread the board..with salt, spices, and other condiments. 1869Rogers in Adam Smith's W.N. I. Editor's Pref. 29 The intense desire to obtain those Eastern condiments.
b. fig.
c1430tr. T. à Kempis 109 Make it sauory wiþ þe condiment of þy wisdom. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. xix. 218 Hope..is the incentive, the support, the condiment of all honest labour. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. viii. 262 The virtues of Jesuitism, seasoned with that fatal condiment.
▪ II. † condiment, v. rare.
[f. prec.]
trans. To season or flavour with a condiment; to spice.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xi. 525 Use this ferment For musty brede, whom this wol condyment. 1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1859) II. 251 Sinon, one of the great masters of the condimenting art. 1854Badham Halieut. xxi. 487 Unless it be most carefully condimented and seasoned. |