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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
appetise .
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Examples
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"I have found no better recipe for making wormwood wine than that given by old Langham in his _Garden of Health_; and as he directs its use to be confined to 'Streine out a _little_ spoonful, and drinke it with a draught of ale or wine,' I think it must have been so atrociously unpalatable, that to _drink it up_, as Hamlet challenged Laertes to do, would have been as strong an argumentum ad stomachum as to digest a crocodile, even when appetised by a slice of the loaf."
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Vendôme,” he would laughingly say to Mme. Bontemps, in the appetised tone of an epicure who has thought of, and intends to try the substitution, in a sauce, of cayenne pepper for cloves.
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"Carit_ie_," as in some reference books), he may not be greatly appetised by the addition to the title, "contenant, sous des temps, des personnes, et des noms supposés, plusieurs rares et véritables histoires de notre temps."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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