a. [ad. L. culināri-us, f. culīna kitchen. In F. culinaire (Cotgr.).]
1. Of or pertaining to a kitchen; kitchen-.
1638. Wilkins, New World, iii. (1707), 30. Culinary and Elementary Fire are of different kinds.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. III. x. 105. Culinarie Rhetoric, such as is in use amongst Trencher-Knights.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 405. They reckon it unlawful … to extinguish even the culinary fire with water.
1856. Miss Mulock, J. Halifax (ed. 17), 93. A very culinary goddess.
2. Of or pertaining to cookery.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 272. Culinary prescriptions.
1784. Cowper, Task, I. 125. The palate undepraved By culinary arts.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872), I. 60. Never keep any fire, except for culinary purposes.
b. Of vegetables: Fit for cooking.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 386. All kinds of culinary roots and plants.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), I. 148. One of our most common and useful culinary vegetables.
