Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An herbal infusion or similar preparation drunk as a beverage or for its mildly medicinal effect.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A decoction with medicinal properties. Compare ptisan.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A medicinal drink made from barley soaked in water
- n. Any infusion or drink, especially medicinal or curative, made by steeping in hot water; a herbal tea
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) See ptisan.
WordNet 3.0
- n. infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves
Etymologies
- From Old French ptisane, tisane, from Ancient Greek πτισάνη (ptisanē, "peeled barley, barley-water"). (Wiktionary)
- French, barley water, from Old French, from Latin ptisana, tisana; see ptisan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The drinking of healthy herbal brews has a long history - the word tisane is derived from the Greek ptisane, which referred to a drink made from barley.”
“• Herbal: Also referred to as a tisane, herbal teas incorporate flowers, roots, herbs, and spices, but contain no actual tea.”
“But here is what I have done today: I have used up the last of a kind of tisane (herbal tea) and a kind of hot chocolate.”
“H&S’s line of fruit “teas” are all a mixture of dried fruit, rather than dried herbs (aka a tisane) or dried tea leaves (aka tea).”
“A type of tisane and a type of hot chocolate completely used up!”
“For whatever reason, hot chocolate does not appeal with this kind of sick, so I go through a lot of tisane.”
“Also, I have now tried all the kinds of tisane in the house and sorted them for which ones are to go find themselves new homes and which ones are to get drunk up by me.”
“Which is fine, because it's not like there were things I wanted to do this week other than curling up on the sofa and trying to get and keep something in my system that has more substance in it than cloudberry tisane.”
“An organic spirit, 80-proof Rhuby is inspired by a tisane brewed by the Pennsylvania Dutch.”
“Breakfast today is sesame steamed buns, and the tea today is coffee, which is technically a tisane.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tisane’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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1001 ways to caffeinate
Coffee has been in the news recently; several long-term studies have concluded coffee almost certainly helps prevent type 2 diabetes, liver disease, basal cell carcinoma and possibly Parkinson’s. ...
flat white, black coffee, breve, ristretto, espresso, doppio, tripplo, depth charge, eiskaffee, caffè latte, café au lait, galão and 230 more...
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Nice archaic words
oneiric, tisane, pecksniffian, eftsoons, forsooth, egad, ensorcell, zounds, fie, huzzah, consarn it, prithee and 2 more...
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Agatha Christie
Charming and intriguing words one finds in AG's murder mysteries. Also see Murdered, you say?
ambassadress, aperitif, baluster, cause célèbre, crime passionnel, embankment, embonpoint, galantine, mauvais sujet, mephistophelean, mountebank, purloin and 67 more...
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Lively Words
quick, quicksilver, cwic, quitch grass, cwice, vivify, viviparous, viper, weever, wyvern, viand, victual and 148 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (T)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
tabard, tadpole, taffeta, taffy, talisman, tallgrass, tam, tamarind, tamarack, tambourine, tango, tansy and 144 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 226 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
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gerwitz's Words
erudite, autodidactic, callipygian, ouroboros, zounds, fie, wabi, sabi, gedankenexperiment, zeitgeist, eliminativism, aether and 157 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo tea-stain?
disdain? Jan 25, 2013