Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A spiced drink of hot sweetened milk curdled with wine or ale.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A drink composed of hot milk curdled by some infusion, as wine or other liquor, formerly much in favor both as a luxury and as medicine.
- To curdle; coagulate.
Wiktionary
- n. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc.
- v. obsolete To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood
- v. To treat with possets; to pamper
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.
- v. obsolete To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.
- v. rare To treat with possets; to pamper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer
Etymologies
- Middle English poshet, possot : perhaps Old French *posce (Latin pōsca, drink of vinegar and water from potāre, to drink; see potable + Latin esca, food from edere, to eat; see edible) + Middle English hot, hot; see hot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Inexplicably, it may be the first appearance of the word posset on this website.”
“An English creation, it descended from a hot British drink called posset, which consists of eggs, milk, and ale or wine.”
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“The caudle cup, sometimes called a posset cup, is met with both without and with cover, and in some instances it is accompanied by a stand or tray.”
“He remained for a few minutes upstairs, chatting gaily, vowing that the posset was the best he had ever drank, and declaring to Nellie that he regarded as a favourable omen for his expedition that he should have seen so fair a face the last thing before starting.”
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“Simple but decadent, the posset is a charming dessert, particularly in these surroundings which evoke a time long gone.”
“A lemon posset was fine on flavour, but slightly overset.”
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bilby "Apparently this gave her some temporary relief, but then her symptoms returned and she consulted Dr Fairfax's apothecary. He wrote that he gave her some 'Lady Hollands powder to take in a posset drink', which made her vomit."
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ruzuzu Also see sack-posset. Jan 14, 2011
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but then, if someone had described makkolli to me before I'd drunk it...I wouldna drunk it. Apr 26, 2009
missanthropist A drink composes of hot milk, curdled by some strong infusion.
It was found much in favour with our ancestors, both as a luxury and medicine. Feb 4, 2009