condite
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin condītus, past participle of condīre (“to preserve, pickle, season”). Related to condiment. See also recondite.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcondite (third-person singular simple present condites, present participle conditing, simple past and past participle condited)
- (obsolete, transitive) To pickle; to preserve.
- to condite pears, quinces, etc.
- 1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying:
- condite the bodies
Adjective
editcondite (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Preserved; pickled.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 2, subsection i:
- Such are puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed; baked meats, soused indurate meats, fried and broiled, buttered meats, condite, powdered and over-dried;
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “condite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editcondite
- inflection of condire:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editcondite f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editcondīte
Verb
editcondite
References
edit- condite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Spanish
editVerb
editcondite
- second-person singular voseo imperative of condir combined with te
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