Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Quince marmalade; quiddany.

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Examples

  • Pantagruel to eat some devilish drugs compounded of lithotripton, which is a stone-dissolving ingredient, nephrocatarticon, that purgeth the reins, the marmalade of quinces, called codiniac, a confection of cantharides, which are green flies breeding on the tops of olive-trees, and other kinds of diuretic or piss-procuring simples.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Pantagruel to eat some devilish drugs compounded of lithotripton, which is a stone-dissolving ingredient, nephrocatarticon, that purgeth the reins, the marmalade of quinces, called codiniac, a confection of cantharides, which are green flies breeding on the tops of olive-trees, and other kinds of diuretic or piss-procuring simples.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • a stone-dissolving ingredient, nephrocatarticon, that purgeth the reins, the marmalade of quinces, called codiniac, a confection of cantharides, which are green flies breeding on the tops of olive-trees, and other kinds of diuretic or piss-procuring simples.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • I enjoining him to be secret, which he the more willingly promised that I have obliged him and Mrs Jem with codiniac and quince marmalett of my own making, do tell him how my father

    The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

  • [currants] and the apples, and the conserves and codiniac [quince marmalade], and such like, I will not tarry to count them.

    Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864

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