# culinarian
## English
### Etymology 1

From culinary +‎ -an.

#### Noun

culinarian (plural culinarians)
* A chef.

### Etymology 2

From Latin culīnārius +‎ -an.

#### Adjective

culinarian (comparative more culinarian, superlative most culinarian)
* (rare) Culinary.
** 1609, Humfrey Leech, A Triumph of Truth. Or Declaration of the Doctrine Concerning Euangelicall Counsayles; […], [Douai]: [ […] L. Kellam], page 13; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:This was the accompte, that the culinarian Doctour made of S. GREGORY the great; one of the holiest, & learnedst doctours, that euer breathed in the CATHOLIQVE Church;* […]
** 1610, Daniell Price, The Defence of Truth against a Booke Falsely Called The Triumph of Truth Sent over from Arras A. D. 1609. By Humfrey Leech Late Minister. […], Oxford, Oxon: […] Joseph Barnes, pages 65–66; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:Cham in Noahs family, or Dathan in Moses Policie, coulde not haue vented out more loathsome vn∣seemely speeches, then this your Culinarian Title of him, whom you were bound to, not only for the par∣ticipation of Gods blessings to you in his learning, wisedome, governement; but especially for his wor∣thy care, and loue to you, beeing a speciall meanes to bring you into that Colledge.
** 1615, Nick-groome of the Hobie-Stable Regino Burgi [pseudonym; Edward Hoby], A Curry-Combe for a Coxe-Combe. Or Purgatories Knell. In Answer of a Lewd Libell Lately Foricated by Iabal Rachil against Sir Edvv. Hobies Counter-Snarle: Entituled Purgatories Triumph ouer Hell. […], London: […] William Stansby for Nathaniel Butter, […], page 223; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:And what are the Do∣ctrines which your Hall wonders serue to confirme? are they not Culinarian Theorems which they striue to support?
** 1828 September, “Bidcombe Hill”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXIV, number CXLIII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 350, column 1:It is, to be sure, a bad sign of man, or mountain, to have too many aliases, but when this height-protuberant was blessed with so picturesque an appellation as Cold Kitchin Hill, why, in the name of poesy, whether local or descriptive, or both, did he not celebrate it under a name so prolific of sombre, yet beautiful thoughts? Think what an air of dignity he might have thrown over the culinarian roof; he would have painted the fire burning warm and cheerily in some stout baron’s hall; great ruddy-faced cooks, as big as Patagonians, stuffing whole bullocks into cauldrons at once, which boiled and bubbled like inland lakes with a blast from the mountains, […]
** 1988, Luigi Mazza, editor, International Participations: World Cities and the Future of the Metropolis, Milan: Electa; XVII Triennale, page 215:The Städte-Landschaft between Basel and Frankfurt displays many qualities of a metropolis: lively urban centres of Roman, medieval and baroque origins, Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals, baroque castles and palaces, theatres, operas and museums, urban quarters and villages, model settlements (Siedlungen) of the Modern Movement, different labour markets, conventions and fairs, universities, polytechnical schools and academies, baroque gardens and fluvial meadows, a landscape of hills and vineyards, forests and lakes, whose well known gastronomy combines hospitality and quality of the culinarian art.
** 2008, Allan Mallinson, Warrior, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 130:It troubled some, he knew – Kezia was one of them – to begin a dinner with such sweet things, but in truth he was never much bothered with the precise progression of tastes. He recognized, certainly, the culinarian art when at its highest, but he did not fret for the want of it.
** 2019, Sheila R. Smart, “Introduction”, in Jamaica Taste the Island: History, Culture, Cuisine, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:In addition, you will discover some Jamaican customs and practices as well as have the opportunity to hone your culinarian skills in preparing some of the island’s delicious cuisine and exotic drinks.

### References

* ↑ “culinarian”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* ↑ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “culinarian, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* uncinarial