condite
English
Etymology
From Latin condītus, past participle of condīre (“to preserve, pickle, season”). Related to condiment. See also recondite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɒndaɪt/
Verb
condite (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
condite (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Preserved; pickled.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, 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;
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- D-notice, ctenoid, deontic, ectodin, noticed
Italian
Verb
condite
- inflection of condire:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
condite f pl
- feminine plural of condito
Anagrams
- docenti
Latin
Verb
condīte
- second-person plural present active imperative of condiō
Verb
condite
- second-person plural present active imperative of condō
References
- 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)