Definition of Leavened

1. Adjective. Made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form. "Yeast-leavened breads"

Antonyms: Unleavened

Definition of Leavened

1. Verb. (past of leaven) ¹

2. Adjective. Prepared using leavening ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leavened

1. leaven [v] - See also: leaven

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leavened

leave nothing to the imagination
leave of absence
leave off
leave office
leave one's options open
leave out
leave over
leave somebody high and dry
leave somebody holding the bag
leave someone in the lurch
leave to one's own devices
leave well enough alone
leaved
leaveless
leaven
leavened (current term)
leavening
leavening agent
leavenings
leavenless
leavenous
leavens
leaver
leavers
leaves
leaves alone
leaves behind
leaves for dead
leaves of three let it be
leaves one's options open

Literary usage of Leavened

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

1. The Reformed Mennonite Church: Its Rise and Progress, with Its Principles by Daniel Musser (1873)
"Then every one doing such things as Paul here alludes to, is leavened; ... One can certainly not be "good," and be leavened at the same time. ..."

2. Notitia Eucharistica: A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical by William Edward Scudamore (1876)
"For the Syrians, John Maro,4 580, or the writer under his name :—" To that which thou hast asked, whether men ought to offer in bread leavened or unleavened ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... the use of the vernacular languages in worship; a number of minor ceremonies, as the use of common or leavened bread in the Eucharist, infant communion, ..."

4. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"It is ordinary leavened bread, cut into small pieces, blessed, and given to the people after the manner of the love- feasts of the early Church, ..."

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