spicen

English

Etymology

From spice +‎ -en.

Verb

spicen (third-person singular simple present spicens, present participle spicening, simple past and past participle spicened)

  1. (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.

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From spice +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspiːsən/

Verb

spicen

  1. To spice; to add spice to something.
  2. (rare) To perform embalmment with spices.

Conjugation

Conjugation of spicen (weak in -ed)
infinitive (to) spicen, spice
present tense past tense
1st-person singular spice spiced
2nd-person singular spicest spicedest
3rd-person singular spiceth spiced
subjunctive singular spice
imperative singular —
plural1 spicen, spice spiceden, spicede
imperative plural spiceth, spice —
participles spicynge, spicende spiced, yspiced

1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

  • English: spice
  • Scots: spice

References

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