Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A going or entering into as an ingredient.
- noun [Appar. orig. an erroneous spelling of
ingredients .] An ingredient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Entrance; ingress.
- noun The quality or state of being an ingredient or component part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
entrance ;ingress - noun obsolete The quality or state of being an
ingredient orcomponent part .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What the bill MUST have is the right ingredience to make all sides happy enough to feel what they gain will offset what they give up.
Pelosi: Health bill must have public option to pass House 2009
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You can make a tasty burrito by using these ingredience.
Breakfast Burrito 2009
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These powers bore close resemblance to the substantial forms of the proximate matter prior to its ingredience in the new substance; they nevertheless represented some modifications by the new environ - ment within the substance; and they were potentially restorable to their original states on the dissolution of the substance.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968
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They turn out good because all the ingredience are already cooked and all it needs is a good heating.
Recent Activity A Brown 2010
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It took some time but the guy finally gave in and gave her the ingredience.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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i asked my mom if i was right about the ingredience in it, and it made her want to cook it.
naylamoors Diary Entry naylamoors 2003
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The first figure in Flamonell doth plainly resemble the first ingredience, what it is, & from whence it comes, & how gotten, as there you may plainly see set forth by 2 resemblances held in a man's hand; for the confections there named is a delusion, for they are but the operations of the work after some time set, as the scum of the Red Sea, which is the Virgin's Milk upon the top of the vessel, white.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Fronte capillata est post est occasio calua) offered to broch his conceiued purpose of rebellion which of late he had imagined, and now began to put in practise, vsing the opportunitie of the time and the state or qualitie of the quarell then taken for his best aduantage, and meaning to make it an ingredience or entrance to the malicious conceit which he had kept secret in his hart.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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Sending back some alchemistic book to Winthrop, he tells him that if his name be kept secret, "I will write as clear a light, as far as I dare to, in finding the first ingredience ....
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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"If you had the first ingredience & the proportion of each, yet all were nothing if you had not the certain times & seasons of the planets & signs, when to give more or less of this fire, namely a hot & dry, a cold
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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