paneity
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editpaneity (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being bread.
- Coordinate term: vineity
- May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.
- Egyptian gard'ners thus are said to
Have set the leeks they after pray'd to;
And Romish bakers praise the deity
They chipp'd while yet in its paneity […]
- Egyptian gard'ners thus are said to
Usage notes
edit- Often, but not exclusively, used in the Christian context of transubstantiation.