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well-ˈseasoned, ppl. a.
1. Said of meat or drink (see season v. 1).
1684Earl Roscom. Ess. Transl. Verse 248 Well-season'd Bowls the Gossyps Spirits raise. 1694Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxi. §69 The eating of a well season'd dish suited to a Man's pallate. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xxxii. 330 He took the same pleasure in falsehood that an epicure receives from a well-seasoned dish.
2. Well matured and fit for use. Chiefly of timber: Thoroughly dried and hardened. Also fig.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. D j b, These be well seasoned reasons, and substantiall asseuerations in deed. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing ii. 27 Letter-Boards..ought to be made of clean and well-season'd Stuff. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 26 To form strong buskins of well-season'd hyde. 1838Dickens O. Twist iv, Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article.
3. Of persons or animals: Fortified by training or experience. Also, inured to. (Cf. seasoned 3 c.)
1756C. Smart tr. Horace, Sat. ii. v. 55 A well-seasoned lawyer. 1834James J. Marston Hall x, Our horses were strong and well-seasoned to hard work. 1849― Woodman iv, My well-seasoned staves would have drank the whole beer in the town without rolling. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. v. iv. (1866) 741 Twenty thousand well-seasoned and disciplined veterans. |