seasonage
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seasonage (uncountable)
- (obsolete, nonce word) seasoning
- a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volumes (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
- Charity is the grand seasonage of every Christian duty : it gives it a gloss in the sight of God , and a value in the sense of men
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “seasonage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)