condite
English
Etymology
Latin conditus, past participle of condire (“to preserve, pickle, season”). See recondite.
Verb
condite (third-person singular simple present condites, present participle conditing, simple past and past participle condited)
Adjective
condite (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Preserved; pickled.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Italian
Verb
condite
Latin
References
- condite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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