Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in spices, in the widest sense; a grocer; an apothecary.
- noun One who seasons with spice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who seasons with spice.
- noun obsolete One who deals in spice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
seasons withspice . - noun obsolete A
spice dealer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ribs had a sweet bark to them, I prefer a spicer bark.
Archive 2009-08-01 TheNewDiner 2009
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It turned out to be gazillion spicer than food that I would expect without the warning - a little too much for me to handle and I hastily guzzled the can of coke I've ordered.
teddy-risation™ 2009
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The ribs had a sweet bark to them, I prefer a spicer bark.
Perdue's Barbeque TheNewDiner 2009
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Remember KC BBQ means a sweeter sauce, though some places have made a spicer version.
KC BBQ Company Unitas We Stand 2008
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Remember KC BBQ means a sweeter sauce, though some places have made a spicer version.
Archive 2008-11-01 Unitas We Stand 2008
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But to answer your question, yes, it has been eradicated in the wild, and is thought to exist only at the CDC and at the similar institute in Russia, however, other third parties may have samples, and one could assemble new smallpox virus if one had access to the genome, a gene spicer, and a mail order catalog of DNA piece-parts.
Obama echoes the phrase that made me turn against Kerry. Ann Althouse 2008
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The finished product might be even more fun and delicious if you threw in some cinnamon sugar, garlic salt, sun dried tomato, or any other of your favourite sweet or savory butter-spicer-upper.
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Gunne, they do be saying, (skull!) that was a planter for you, a spicer of them all.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Add 1 tsp cinnamon, ginger or cardamom for spicer versions.
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wah! barbylon 2003
chained_bear commented on the word spicer
See another interesting usage on speciarius. Also grossarii which will move you to cubebs, and also grocer and apothecary, and unguent.
"In the medieval mind spices and medicines were effectively one and the same. Not all drugs were spices, but all spices were drugs. The identity was reflected in vocabulary: the Late Latin term for spices, (pigmenta) was practically synonymous with medicines, and so it remained through the Middle Ages. Apothecary and spicer were effectively one and the same: 'one who has at hand for sale aromatic spices and all manner of things needful in medicine,' in the words of a fourteenth-century manuscript at Chartres Cathedral. The apothecary took his name from the Greek term for a warehouse where high-value goods such as spices were stored. Even today one Italian word for pharmacist is speziale. He is the direct descendant of the medieval spicer (speciarius), whose wares were among the most sought after and esteemed medicines of the age."
December 2, 2016