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▪ I. savoury, a. and n.|ˈseɪvərɪ|
Forms: α. 3 savure, compar. savurure; β. 4–5 savery, savori, 4–6 saverey, 5 saveray, sauvury, 6 savrie, savourye, Sc. sau'rie, 6–7 savourie, savorie, 7 saverie, 4–9 savory, 6– savoury; γ. contracted 5 sarry.
[Early ME. savure, app. a. OF. savouré sapid, fragrant, pa. pple. of savourer: see savour v. In the 14th c. the ending was associated with the native -y, so that the adj. was apprehended as f. savour n. + -y.]
A. adj.
1. Pleasing to the taste; appetizing; agreeable.
1382Wyclif Mark ix. 48 Forsoth euery man schal be saltid, or maad sauori, with fier. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 365 At Glyndalkan aboute þe oratorie of Seint Keynewyn wilewys bereþ apples as it were appel treen, and beeþ more holsom þan sauory. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xix. 65 Tho þat sitten in þe sonne-syde sonner aren rype, Swettour and saueriour. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxx. 136 Þai er riȝt sauoury in þe mouth. 1584Cogan Haven Health cxcii. (1636) 172 Cookery..may make that savoury, which of it selfe is unsavoury. 1611Bible Gen. xxvii. 31 And hee also had made sauoury meate, and brought it vnto his father. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 300 All..with keen gust the sav'ry viands share. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 35 The natives of some part of Australia eat a kind of caterpillar..of which they compose a dish to them highly savoury. 1865Kingsley Herew. v, Savoury was the smell of fried pilchard and hake; more savoury that of roast porpoise.
b. Gratifying to the sense of smell; fragrant.
Now rare exc. in negative context: cf. unsavoury.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 209 b, They..perfume the house with the graines of Juniper, and other savoury thinges [L. aliisque rebus odoratis]. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. i, Cruncher's apartments were not in a savoury neighbourhood. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xiii. 11 Perfume savoury.
2. fig.
a. Pleasant; acceptable.
a1225Leg. Kath. 1527 Mi swete lif, se swoteliche he smecheð me & smealleð þat al me þuncheð sauure & softe þat he sent me. c1230Hali Meid. 39 Ah schal ifinden him ai swettere & sauurure. c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 405 If it be wikke, a wonder thinketh me, Whenne every torment and adversitee That cometh of him, may to me savory thinke. 1545King's Primer, Graces **iv, O Lord Jesu Christ without whom nothing is swete nor sauery,..blesse vs & our supper. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 463 One said there was no Sallets in the lines, to make the matter sauoury. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. (1716) III. 57 The sense of having lived well..is a far more solid and savoury pleasure than the most ample revenue can afford. 1875Ruskin Fors Clav. xlix. 11 The delicious parable, savouriest of all Scripture to rogues. 1885R. L. & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 100 Something taking in the way of colour, a good, savoury choice of words.
†b. In religious phraseology. (a) Full of spiritual ‘savour’; spiritually delightful or edifying. (b) Having the savour of holiness; of saintly repute or memory. Obs.
(a)c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvi. 89 The maner of outring which is sauory in a sermonyng. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 49 An other [wyse] is to take hede to the letter only, after the lytterall understondynge. And thys ys sometyme sauory, sometyme bareyne, after that the letter ys. 1563Foxe A. & M. 1354/2 Many such like answers and reasons, mery, but sauery..proceaded from that man. 1626Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. xxi. i. 336 A forced discontinuance, makes deuotion more sauoury, more sweet to religious hearts. a1720Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iii. 230 Practised by the savouriest of people called Quakers. 1726Penn in Life Wks. (1782) I. 98 Leaving the Man in a sensible and savoury Frame. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 295 His letters and speeches are, to use his own phraseology, exceeding savoury... He had a text of the Old Testament ready for every occasion.
(b)1642D. Rogers Naaman Ep. Ded. 4 Hath made your name sweet and savoury in the Church of God. 1731Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 487 You need not be told what a great loss this Church will be at by this good and worthy gentleman's death, whose name will be for ever savoury in this Church.
3. Used, in contradistinction to sweet, as the epithet of articles of food having a stimulating taste or flavour.
1661Rabisha Cookery Dissected 157 If you would have it baked savoury, season it with Pepper, Salt, Cloves [etc.]. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 283 Pigeons in Savory Jelly. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 278 Omelette, a Savoury one.
B. n. A savoury dish (see A. 3); spec. a cooked dish, flavoured with appetizing ingredients, served at the beginning or end of a dinner as a stimulant to appetite and digestion.
1661Rabisha Cookery Dissected 138 Another way for a savory. 1844Tupper Heart xvii. 168 The board was overloaded with solid sweets and savouries. 1896Anthony Hope Phroso i, ‘Why, how early you two have dined!’ cried Beatrice. ‘You're at the savoury, aren't you? We've only just come.’
▪ II. savoury, savowr(e
see savory, savour. |