Definition of Ptisan

1. n. A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.

Definition of Ptisan

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of tisane) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ptisan

1. a tea of herbs or barley [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptisan

pterygoquadrate
pterygote
pteryla
pterylae
pterylas
pterylographies
pterylography
pteryloses
pterylosis
ptilochronology
ptilonorhynchid
ptilonorhynchids
ptilopaedic
ptiloses
ptilosis
ptisan (current term)
ptisane
ptisans
ptochologist
ptochologists
ptochology
ptomain
ptomaine
ptomaine poisoning
ptomaines
ptomainic
ptomains
ptooey
ptooie
ptoses

Literary usage of Ptisan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
""With barley, too, the food called ptisan™ is made, a most substantial and salutary ... The ptisan of the highest quality is that which is made at Utica; ..."

2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... end head, To view and recognise his ancient lord And, with a willing hand, restores The fasces of the main. again; Here 's julep dance, ptisan of song ..."

3. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"Loss of the eye-lashes, occasioned by chronic inflammation of the eye-lids. ptisan ... oryza.1," or ptisan- drink of rice ; and Celsus has ..."

4. Elements of Physiology by Anthelme Richerand (1819)
"Barley ptisan, honey, and a few other substances, the greater part obtained from the vegetable kingdom, sufficed to Hippocrates in the treatment of diseases ..."

5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"PRAIRIE Doo. (See Marmot.) PRESUMPTIVE HEIRS. (See Apparent.) PRIMER SEISIN. (See Tenures.) PTARMIGAN ; a species of grouse. (See Grouse.) ptisan. ..."

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