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zythepsary en · NOUN

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos, “barley beer”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “to boil”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) A brewery.
   • 1861, uncredited contributor, “Wandering Words” in All the Year Round, Volume 5, No. 106, 4 May, 1961, p. 144, But the oddest things of all are to be found in the dictionaries. Why they are all kept there no one knows; but what man in his senses would use such words as zythepsary for a brew-house, and zumologist for a brewer […]
   • ...and we Employ the same old diastase In orgulous zythepsaries. 1937, Saturday Review of Literature - Volume 17, page 13:
   • Zythepsary equipment — there's a vast change nowadays! 1950, The Listener - Volume 43, page 451:
   • He was full of inkhorn words going so far as to call grog shops zythepsaries, which seemed several syllables too long to be uttered by any I had ever met within such places […] 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Porcupine Fish”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, VI, p. 121:

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zymurgy