† ingrediencyn.
Obsolete.
1. = ingredience n. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > medicine of mixed ingredients
confectiona1398
mixtiona1398
diatessaronc1400
ingredience1526
mixture1562
diapente1610
ingrediency1639
tetrapharmacon1728
polypharmaceutical1961
1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 345 Those which cannot have all the ingrediencie of this composition.
1646 S. Bolton Arraignment of Errour 75 There are but few errours in oure dayes..but have some ingrediency of truth in them.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) p. ii I am sure they know not all the Ingrediencies thereof.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 424 Pure unmixt glory without any ingrediency of pride or sinful vanity.
2. = ingredience n. 2.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > fact or process of becoming or being
ingredience1538
ingrediency1648
1648 W. Bridge Eng. Saved 27 It [Papistry] destroies your Obedience, by the ingrediency of merits.
1650 Truth's Confl. with Error ii. 50 There is an ingrediency and concurrence of all the great and glorious Perfections of God.
1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 192 Think not that sensual pleasure..can have any ingrediency into..this state of blessedness.
1695 Whether Parl. be not dissolved by Death P'cess Orange 3 [Parliaments] cannot cease to have an Ingrediency into the Government, without a dissolution of the whole Frame of it.
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