单词 | vinosity |
释义 | vinosityn. 1. The state or quality of being vinous; vinous character or flavour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > [noun] > vinous quality vinosity1658 vinousness1727 vineity1782 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 33 Vessels of Oyles and Aromaticall Liquors... And some yet retaining a Vinosity and spirit in them, which if any have tasted they have farre exceeded the Palats of Antiquity. [Hence in Blount Glossogr. (1661).] 1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees ii. iv. 210 If we consider, how necessary Fermentation is to the Vinosity of the Liquor. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. ii. 20 It is common with Distillers, in order to..give it a particular Flavour, or improve its Vinosity. 1843 W. L. Tizard Theory & Pract. Brewing 465 The vinosity and mellowness [of vinous liquors] are at the same time improved. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 July A Médoc wine-taster can tell at a sip what sort of ground a bottle of wine has grown in;..that grown on a stony layer is marked by greater body and vinosity. 1890 O. Crawfurd Round Calendar in Portugal 195 All the rich and subtle chemistry of vinosity, which help to cheer and sustain the body. 2. Fondness for, addiction to, wine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking of wine > fondness for wine vinosity1624 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > addiction to alcohol or habitual drinking > specific drink vinosity1624 absinthism1866 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον vii. 348 The souldiers..reprooving his intemperate vinositie. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ix. 441 Riots, Reuels, Banquets, Pride, Surfets, Vinocitie, Voracitie. 1857 Fraser's Mag. 56 486 Aristophanes himself, notwithstanding his jokes on the vinosity of Cratinus, is said in Athenæus to have been well primed with wine when he sat down to write. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1624 |
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