season
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.zn̩/
ipa: /ˈsi.zn̩/
enpr: sēʹzən
ipa: /ˈsɪi.zən/
rhymes: -iːzən
Forms: form: seasons
form: seasoning
form: seasoned
form: seasoned
Etymology: From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
Senses: examples: text: to season oneself to a climate
glosses: To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
examples: text: The timber needs to be seasoned.
glosses: To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
glosses: To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
examples: text: The wood has seasoned in the sun.
glosses: To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
glosses: To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
examples: text: When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her.
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, chapter 22, in The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, part 1, London, page 93:
text: For this prince[…]would not ſuffer the Buls to come unto the Kine and ſeaſon them, before they were both foure yeares old.
ref: 1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, book 8, London, translation of Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, chapter 45, page 224:
text: If you had seasoned me with that philosophy, which formeth the mind to ratiocination, and insensibly accustoms it to be satisfied with nothing but solid reasons, if you had given me those excellent precepts and doctrines, which raise the foul above the assaults of fortune, and reduce her to an unshakeable and always equal temper, and permit her not to be lifted up b prosperity, nor debased by adversity, if you had taken care to give me the knowledge of what we are, and what are the first principles of things, and had assisted me in forming in my mind a fit idea of the greatness of the universe, and of the admirable order and motion of the parts thereof, if, I say, you had instilled into me this kind of philosophy, I should think myself incomparably more obliged to you than Alexander was to his Aristotle
ref: 1745, A Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 150:
text: In minds, not seasoned and impregnated with the due apprehension of those ends, that conduce to ease and security, there is usually a tempestuous discontent, that raises unruly ferments; an unkind gale, by whose resistless powers, the port is overreached.
ref: 1763, Edmund Burton, Antient Characters deduced from Classical Remains, page 82:
glosses: To impregnate (literally or figuratively).
Synonyms: sense: make fit for any use by time or habit
word: wont
word: accustom
sense: prepare by drying
word: desiccate
sense: prepare by drying
word: dehydrate
sense: prepare by drying
word: exiccate
sense: prepare by drying
word: fordry
sense: become mature
word: age
word: grow up
word: mature
word: to age
sense: become dry and hard
word: desiccate
sense: become dry and hard
word: dry out
sense: become dry and hard
word: dry up
sense: become dry and hard
word: fordry
sense: become dry and hard
word: shrivel up
sense: mingle
word: admix
word: alloy
word: intermingle
word: mix
sense: impregnate
word: inseminate
sense: impregnate
word: fertilize
sense: impregnate
word: seed