ingredientadj.n.

Brit.

/ɪnˈɡriːdɪənt/,

/ɪŋˈɡriːdɪənt/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈɡridiənt/,

/ɪŋˈɡridiənt/

Etymology: < Latin ingredient-em, present participle of ingredī to enter, < in- (in- prefix³) + gradī to step, go: compare French ingrédient noun (1508 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), which was probably the immediate source of the noun in sense B. 3.

A. adj. That enters in; entering into a thing or place:

†a. by moving or running in. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [adjective]

entering?a1425

ingredient1611

entrant1635

introvenient1646

ingoing1825

ineunta1856

ingressant1947

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Ingrediente, ingredient, entring in.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 115 The course of Gods Spirit is in divers men, different: Either ingredient and insident..or urgent and impellent.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 45 The external and common Coat of the ingredient Vessels.

b. as a component part or element. archaic.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective] > of or relating to components > that becomes a component part

ingredient1642

1642 T. Lechford Plain Dealing (1867) 95 They began about a small trespasse of swine, but it is thought some other matter was ingredient.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiii. 168 The horne of a Deere is..ingredient into the confection of Hyacinth.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 73 Some fierce, deed-doing man, Compos'd of many ingredient Valours, Just like the Manhood of nine Taylors.

1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 16 June 1/1 The Generosity that is ingredient in the Temper of the Soul.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 291 The connection between the external characters of a stone and its ingredient constituents.

1933 Theology XXVI. 331 The distinction between the realm of possibility and that of actuality, between ‘eternal objects’ and the ‘actual occasions’ into which the eternal objects are ingredient.

1957 G. Ryle in C. A. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-Cent. 241 He has to declare that his subject-matter consist [sic] not of the sentences and their ingredient words in which arguments are expressed [etc.].

B. n.

†1. One who steps in. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > one who goes or comes in

enterer1528

intrant1528

ingredient1614

entrant1764

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 3 If Sinne..discouers the greene and gay flowers of delice, he cryes to the Ingredients, Latet anguis in herba, the Serpent lurkes there.

†2. A thing which enters in or penetrates. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > that which goes in

ingredient1624

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 7 [The air] being a perpetual ambient and ingredient.

a. Something that enters into the formation of a compound or mixture; a component part, constituent, element. Primarily used of medical compositions and other artificial material mixtures, but also of natural compounds and of things immaterial, actions, conditions, etc.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component

limbc1000

membera1382

elementc1386

parcelc1395

ingredientc1460

partc1530

ingredience1577

principle1594

simple1603

composer1610

partiment1641

component1644

constitutive1647

composite1657

integral1659

ingredient1674

aggregant1749

constituent1757

congredient1767

factor1816

integrant1825

inclusion1845

c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 144 Alle þese ingredyentes, þey ar for ypocras makynge.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 42/2 Thys cerote..comforteth y^e sore place, as it appeareth to hym, that consydereth the ingredientes.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Catal. Words Art Ingredients, be those simples that goe vnto the making of any medicine compound.

1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 248 What are the ingredients to your fucus?

1660 J. Gauden Serm. Funeral Brounrig 124 Stupidity, I told you, is no ingredient in piety.

a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Miscellanea: 3rd Pt. (1701) 191 Whatever the Spleen is.. it is certainly a very ill Ingredient into any other Disease.

1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. ii. 25 Human happiness..seems to consist of three ingredients, action, pleasure and indolence.

1784 J. Potter Virtuous Villagers II. 100 These are no inconsiderable ingredients to love and friendship.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iii. x. 458 The money price of corn..is..the most powerful ingredient in regulating the price of labour.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxv. 397 His ambition was quite pure from all sordid ingredients.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiii. 602 The brass of the Middle Ages was..a mixture of tin and copper, the latter being the larger ingredient in the compound.

†b. Chief or main ingredient. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > principal

ingredienta1616

groundwork1822

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) ii. iii. 301 Euery inordinate cup is vnbless'd, and the Ingredient [1622 ingredience] is a diuell.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xii. 133 We may as firmly conclude, that Diaphœnicon a purging electuary hath some part of the Phœnix for its ingredient .

†c. A material. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > materials > [noun]

stuffc1440

materialc1475

material1509

graith1513

subject matter1535

metalc1550

staple1598

tew1616

subjected matter1645

materiable1652

matter1680

ingredient1691

vehicle1837

input1893

1691 Proc. relating to Mill'd-lead-sheathing 37 in T. Hale Acct. Several New Inventions The Ingredients employed in that method of Sheathing, are of Forreign growth.

4. ingredients occurs as singular = ingredience n. 1b.

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