condite

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English

Etymology

From Latin condītus, past participle of condīre (to preserve, pickle, season). Related to condiment. See also recondite.

Pronunciation

Verb

condite (third-person singular simple present condites, present participle conditing, simple past and past participle condited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pickle; to preserve.
    to condite pears, quinces, etc.
    • 1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying:
      condite the bodies

Adjective

condite (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Preserved; pickled.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 2, subsection i:
      Such are puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed; baked meats, soused indurate meats, fried and broiled, buttered meats, condite, powdered and over-dried;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for condite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

condite

  1. inflection of condire:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

condite f pl

  1. feminine plural of condito

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

condīte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of condiō

Verb

condite

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of condō

References

Spanish

Verb

condite

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of condir combined with te