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Definition of Spicery
1. Noun. The property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored.
Generic synonyms: Taste Property
Specialized synonyms: Bite, Pungency, Raciness, Sharpness, Nip, Piquance, Piquancy, Piquantness, Tang, Tanginess, Zest, Hotness, Pepperiness
Derivative terms: Spice, Spice, Spice, Spicy
Definition of Spicery
1. n. Spices, in general.
Definition of Spicery
1. Noun. Spices, in general. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) A repository of spices. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spicery
1. a spicy quality [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spicery
Literary usage of Spicery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-records of Chaucer by Richard Edward Gent Kirk, Edward Augustus Bond, Frederick James Furnivall, Walter Rye, Walford Dakin Selby, Francis Tate (1875)
"... to the clarke of the same office, as of wax, gros spicery, linnen cloth, ...
the clarke of the spicery, thus charged in certaine, shalbe every day at ..."
2. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"It appears, from the regulations of July 1604, that much waste had occurred
hitherto, and a clerk of the spicery was ordered to attend every morning at the ..."
3. The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson: In Six Books by William Monson, Michael Oppenheim, Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"It appears, from the regulations of July 1604, that much waste had occurred
hitherto, and a clerk of the spicery was ordered to attend every morning at the ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Alle the spicery that I man can mene, In that land hit maie be sene: For ...
and Morez be ther duellant, And ever in her spicery thei be ..."
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