spicen
English
Verb
spicen (third-person singular simple present spicens, present participle spicening, simple past and past participle spicened)
- (transitive) To make spicy, or to spice
- 1905, A Little Book of Rutgers Tales, page 119:
- In the evening it was different. Miss Reed attended a concert arranged for charity's sake by the guests. She attended it with Vernon, but that made no difference to Jim. The masterful “rusher ” gives his opponent opportunities occasionally, to keep him in good humor and to spicen the life and interest of his quarry.
- 2002, Andrew Harvey, The Direct Path:
- She was a vibrant, big-boned, red-faced woman straight out of Chaucer, and we were great friends; because she couldn't leave her cloister and needed to exercise every day, she had had to invent things “to spicen life up a bit.”
- 2012, Steven Fornal, Praying The Price:
- She is confident that she has plenty of data bits to spicen up and personalize her first six shows.
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Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspiːsən/
Conjugation
Conjugation of spicen (weak)
infinitive | (to) spicen | |
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indicative | present | past |
1st person singular | spice | spicede |
2nd person singular | spicest | spicedest |
3rd person singular | spiceth, spiceþ | spicede |
plural | spicen | spiceden |
subjunctive | present | past |
singular | spice | spicede |
plural | spicen | spiceden |
imperative | present | |
singular | spice | |
plural | spiceth, spiceþ | |
participle | present | past |
spicende, spicinge | spiced, yspiced |
References
- “spīcen (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.
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