Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of seasoning.
- To strike or affect unseasonably or disagreeably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning.
- transitive verb obsolete To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To make
unseasoned ; to deprive ofseasoning . - verb obsolete To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I keep one skillet for tomato stuff and anything else that might unseason it, and one for non-stick purposes.
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The male sims flubs and spears outside the windbreak to finish off imals they had wounded. lSt wolf tasted much better than Quick had thought it L ew days later, the weather turned clear and unseason hrarm.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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The male sims flubs and spears outside the windbreak to finish off imals they had wounded. lSt wolf tasted much better than Quick had thought it L ew days later, the weather turned clear and unseason hrarm.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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“I hoped,” Boyle wrote, “I might at least do no unseason - able piece of service to the corpuscular philosophies by illustrating some of their notions with sensible ex - periments” (Works, ed. Birch, I, 356).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968
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655 That may your tuneful ear unseason quite? unseason > {Strike or affect disagreeably} 656 You only fit this argument to write,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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