panary

panary

English

Etymology

From Latin panarium (“pantry”)

Noun

panary (plural panaries)

1. A pantry or storehouse for bread.
   • 1611, “The Translators to the Reader”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:

     In a word, it [Scripture] is a panary of holeſome foode, againſt fenowed traditions; a Phyſicians-ſhop (Saint Baſill calleth it) of preſeruatiues against poiſoned hereſies; a Pandect of profitable lawes, againſt rebellious ſpirits; a treaſurie of moſt coſtly iewels, againſt beggarly rudiments; Finally, a fountaine of moſt pure water ſpringing vp unto euerlaſting life.

Adjective

panary (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Relating to the making of bread.
   • 1830, Donovan, Michael. Domestic Economy Vol I. Cabinet Cyclopaedia

     When flour is made into a paste or dough by means of water, and yest added, as in the process of bread-making, the dough acquires sponginess, in consequence of being inflated in all parts by fixed air, or carbonic acid. It had been asserted, that, dough in this state, if distilled, does not afford alcohol, although it might have heen expected to do so, if the fermentation which it obviously has undergone were the vinous. It was, therefore, concluded to be a fermentation essentially different ; and from panis, bread, it was called the panary fermentation. […] [T]here are no grounds for doubting the identity of the panary with the vinous fermentation; the former is the incipient stage of the latter […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 panary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)