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English
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos, “barley beer”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “to boil”).
Noun
zythepsary (plural zythepsaries)
- (rare, obsolete) A brewery.
- 1861, uncredited contributor, “Wandering Words” in All the Year Round, Volume 5, No. 106, 4 May, 1961, p. 144,
- But the oddest things of all are to be found in the dictionaries. Why they are all kept there no one knows; but what man in his senses would use such words as zythepsary for a brew-house, and zumologist for a brewer
1937, Saturday Review of Literature - Volume 17, page 13:...and we Employ the same old diastase In orgulous zythepsaries.
1950, The Listener - Volume 43, page 451:Zythepsary equipment — there's a vast change nowadays!
2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Porcupine Fish”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, VI, p. 121:He was full of inkhorn words going so far as to call grog shops zythepsaries, which seemed several syllables too long to be uttered by any I had ever met within such places […]
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