ingredient, a. and n.
(ɪnˈgriːdɪənt)
[ad. L. ingredient-em, pr. pple. of ingred-ī to enter, f. in- (in-2) + gradī to step, go: cf. F. ingrédient n. (1508 in Hatz.-Darm.), which was prob. the immediate source of the n. in sense 3.]
A. adj. That enters in; entering into a thing or place: † a. by moving or running in. Obs.
| 1611 Florio, Ingrediente, ingredient, entring in. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 115 The course of Gods Spirit is in divers men, different: Either ingredient and insident..or urgent and impellent. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xvii. 45 The external and common Coat of the ingredient Vessels. |
b. as a component part or element. arch.
| 1642 T. Lechford Plain Dealing (1867) 95 They began about a small trespasse of swine, but it is thought some other matter was ingredient. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiii. 168 The horne of a Deere is..ingredient into the confection of Hyacinth. 1663 Butler Hud. i. ii. 21 Some fierce, deed-doing man, Compos'd of many ingredient valours, Just like the manhood of nine tailors. 1713 Berkeley Guardian No. 83 ¶1 The generosity that is ingredient in the temper of the soul. 1830 Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 291 The connection between the external characters of a stone and its ingredient constituents. 1933 Theology XXVI. 331 The distinction between the realm of possibility and that of actuality, between ‘eternal objects’ and the ‘actual occasions’ into which the eternal objects are ingredient. 1957 G. Ryle in C. A. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-Cent. 241 He has to declare that his subject-matter consist [sic] not of the sentences and their ingredient words in which arguments are expressed [etc.]. |
B. n.
† 1. One who steps in. Obs. rare.
| 1614 T. Adams Fatal Banquet i. Wks. 1861 I. 159 If sin..discovers the green and gay flowers of delice, he cries to the ingredients, Latet anguis in herbâ,—The serpent lurks there. |
† 2. A thing which enters in or penetrates. Obs.
| 1624 Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 7 [The air] being a perpetual ambient and ingredient. |
3. a. Something that enters into the formation of a compound or mixture; a component part, constituent, element. Primarily used of medical compositions and other artificial material mixtures, but also of natural compounds and of things immaterial, actions, conditions, etc.
| c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 144 Alle þese ingredyentes, þey ar for ypocras makynge. 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. 42 a/2 Thys cerote..comforteth y⊇ sore place, as it appeareth to hym, that consydereth the ingredientes. 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, What are the ingredients to your fucus? 1601 Holland Pliny Explan. Words, Ingredients, be those simples that goe vnto the making of any medicine compound. 1659 Gauden Fun. Serm. Bp. Brownrig (1660) 124 Stupidity, I told you, is no ingredient in piety. 1680–90 Temple Ess., Health & Long Life Wks. 1731 I. 287 Whatever the Spleen is.. it is certainly a very ill Ingredient into any other Disease. 1752 Hume Pol. Disc. ii. 25 Human happiness..seems to consist of three ingredients, action, pleasure and indolence. 1784 J. Potter Virtuous Villagers II. 100 These are no inconsiderable ingredients to love and friendship. 1798 Malthus Popul. (1817) II. 457 The money price of corn..is..the most powerful ingredient in regulating the price of labour. 1838 Thirlwall Greece xxxv. IV. 397 His ambition was quite pure from all sordid ingredients. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxiii. 602 The brass of the Middle Ages was..a mixture of tin and copper, the latter being the larger ingredient in the compound. |
† b. Chief or main ingredient. Obs.
| 1604 Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 311 Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient [Qos. ingredience] is a devil. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xii. 133 We may as firmly conclude, that Diaphœnicon a purging electuary hath some part of the Phœnix for its ingredient. |
† c. A material. Obs. rare.
| 1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 37 The Ingredients employed in that method of Sheathing, are of Forreign growth. |
¶ ingredients occurs as sing. = ingredience 1 b.
| 1674 Essex Papers (Camden) I. 206 Dulce est Lucrum, etc.; & I finde y{supt} Ingredients moves y⊇ great ones as well as y⊇ Little here. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 250/1 The first and more simple Ingredients required in Grammar, is the information and Instruction of Letters. |