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Definition of Ptisan
1. n. A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.
Definition of Ptisan
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of tisane) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ptisan
1. a tea of herbs or barley [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptisan
Literary usage of Ptisan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
""With barley, too, the food called ptisan™ is made, a most substantial and salutary
... The ptisan of the highest quality is that which is made at Utica; ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... end head, To view and recognise his ancient lord And, with a willing hand,
restores The fasces of the main. again; Here 's julep dance, ptisan of song ..."
3. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"Loss of the eye-lashes, occasioned by chronic inflammation of the eye-lids. ptisan
... oryza.1," or ptisan- drink of rice ; and Celsus has ..."
4. Elements of Physiology by Anthelme Richerand (1819)
"Barley ptisan, honey, and a few other substances, the greater part obtained from
the vegetable kingdom, sufficed to Hippocrates in the treatment of diseases ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"PRAIRIE Doo. (See Marmot.) PRESUMPTIVE HEIRS. (See Apparent.) PRIMER SEISIN.
(See Tenures.) PTARMIGAN ; a species of grouse. (See Grouse.) ptisan. ..."
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