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Seasoning   /sˈizənɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Seasoning  n.  
1.
The act or process by which anything is seasoned.
2.
That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.
3.
Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation. "Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings."
Seasoning tub (Bakery), a trough in which dough is set to rise.



verb
Season  v. t.  (past & past part. seasoned; pres. part. seasoning)  
1.
To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit. "He is fit and seasoned for his passage."
2.
To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
3.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
4.
To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.
5.
Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable. "You season still with sports your serious hours." "The proper use of wit is to season conversation."
6.
To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper. "When mercy seasons justice."
7.
To imbue; to tinge or taint. "Who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth." "Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles."
8.
To copulate with; to impregnate. (R.)



Season  v. i.  
1.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
2.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
3.
To give token; to savor. (Obs.)






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"Seasoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... village, usually so peaceable, the festival will not end, I am ready to wager, without the exchange of a few blows, that compulsory seasoning of a day of merry-making. No pleasure, it appears, can be fully relished without an ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... within had lost none of its freshness. It was not so much within doors as behind a door where I sat, even in the rainiest weather. The Harivansa says, "An abode without birds is like a meat without seasoning." Such was not my abode, for I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them. I was not only nearer to some of those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau

... Course of Time, how careful should an Author be of committing any thing to Print that may corrupt Posterity, and poison the Minds of Men with Vice and Error? Writers of great Talents, who employ their Parts in propagating Immorality, and seasoning vicious Sentiments with Wit and Humour, are to be looked upon as the Pests of Society, and the Enemies of Mankind: They leave Books behind them (as it is said of those who die in Distempers which breed an Ill-will towards their own Species) to ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... Bacon, and over that put a piece of writing Paper. Roast this, and serve it up with the following Sauce: Make a hash of Mushrooms, an Anchovy, a few Capers and some Gravy, boiled together with such Seasoning as you approve; the Sauce should be thicken'd or brown'd, and it is fit ...
— The Country Housewife and Lady's Director - In the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm • Richard Bradley

... stuff is reared (Rudolf Greinz, Karl Schoenherr). In Bavaria, finally, people are even more rough and ready and lyrical sentimentality yields to a pugnacious propensity to ridicule, which gives satirical seasoning to the works of the genuinely Bavarian writers Ludwig Thoma ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various


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