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olitory, a. and n. Now rare.|ˈɒlɪtərɪ|
[ad. L. (h)olitōrius of or belonging to a kitchen gardener or vegetables, f. (h)olitor kitchen gardener, f. holus, holer-, pot-herbs, vegetables: see -ory.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to pot-herbs or kitchen vegetables, or to the kitchen garden.
1658Evelyn Diary 6 Dec., Now was publish'd my ‘French Gardener’, the first..that introduc'd ye use of the Olitorie garden. 1664― Kal. Hort., July (1729) 209 Let such Olitory-Herbs run to Seed as you would save. 1670Phil. Trans. V. 1150 The Sylvan, Hortulan and Olitory affairs. 1785[R. Graves] Eugenius II. i. 3 The proper supplies of herbs, and other olitory productions, for the kitchen. 1895Econ. Rev. Oct. 447 Any vegetable cultivated in the olitory garden.
†B. n.
1. A pot-herb, a culinary vegetable. Obs.
1696Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 364 A world of vulgar plants and olitories. 1699― Kal. Hort. (ed. 9) 130 Trust not to the accidental Mildness of the Weather, so as to neglect timely Cover to your tender Olitories.
†2. A kitchen-garden. Obs.
1706Phillips, Olitory, or Olitory Garden, a Kitchen-Garden. 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 15 (1748) III. 125 The refreshing sallad, and all those early products of the useful olitory. 1793W. Roberts Looker-On No. 65 (1794) III. 5 Why should I injure the olitory, by seeming thus to doubt of its attractions? 1900Echo 12 June 1/5 No old-world garden was without its ‘olitory’ or garden of herbs, savoury, aromatic, and quaint. |