bespice

verb

bespice

verb

Etymology From be- + spice.

1

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.

  • Ay, and thou, / His cupbearer […] / mightst bespice a cup / To give mine enemy a lasting wink; / Which draught to me were cordial.c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 1, scene 2, lines 312–318:

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