ppl. a. Also 4 spisid, 5 spicid, 6 spised, spyced, spicte. [f. SPICE sb. or v.]
1. Seasoned or flavored with spice or spices; cured with spices.
c. 1325. Gloss. W. de Bibbesw., in Wright, Voc., 157. Brakole, a spiced cake.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 13. Ȝif þei … drynkyn dilicious ale and spisid and heiȝe wynes.
1479. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 421. To haue … their drynkyngs with spiced Cakebrede.
1487–8. Rec. St. Mary at Hill, 139. To Milton for spicid Bunnes, xiiij d.
1529. Cov. Leet Bk., 697. That no persone … shall bake or make eny spised Caks with butter … but onelie suche persones as shal-be therunto assigned.
1589. Greene, Menaphon, C 3 b. Carmela seeing her brother refuse his spicte drinke, thought all was not well.
1611. Bible, Song Sol. viii. 2. I would cause thee to drinke of spiced wine.
1681. Manch. Crt. Leet Rec. (1888), VI. 126. Joan Liegh for spiced bread.
1708. Sewel, I. Spiced sauce, kruydige saus.
1777. Cowper, Lett. to J. Hill, Wks. 1837, XV. 37. I am much obliged to you for a tub of very fine spiced salmon which arrived yesterday.
1816. Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, iii. (1818), 103. The keg of spiced [printed spliced] rum which I had brought … was now produced.
a. 1848. in Bartlett, Dict. Amer., s.v. Liquor, Spiced punch.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 404. Avoidance of seasoned and spiced food.
b. Impregnated with hot spices.
1666. H. Stubbe, Mirac. Conformist, 29. No Clothes could possibly warme him: he wore upon his Head many spiced Caps.
† 2. Of conscience, etc.: Nice, dainty, delicate, tender; over particular or scrupulous. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 526. He waytud after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him a spiced conscience. Ibid. (c. 1386), Wife’s Prol., 435. Ye schulde be al pacient and meke, And have a swete spiced consciens.
c. 1550. Medwall, Nature, 509 (Brandl), 89. Haue ye suche a spyced conscyence That wyll be entryked wyth euery mery thought?
1594. O. B., Quest. Prof. & Pleas. Concern., E ij. I remember how they dallied out the matter like Chaucers Frier at the first, vnder pretence of spiced holinesse.
1617. Fletcher, Mad Lover, III. i. Take it; it is yours; Be not so spiced; ’tis good gold.
1631. Massinger, Emperor East, I. ii. Fool that I was, to offer such a bargain To a spiced-conscience chapman!
b. Accustomed to spices; blunted, jaded.
1771. Mrs. Griffith, Hist. Lady Barton, II. 268. As tasteless and insipid, as true wit to the epigrammatist, or the sweetest viand to the spiced palate.
3. Fragrant, aromatic; spice-laden.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., II. i. 124. In the spiced Indian aire, by night Full often hath she gossipt by my side.
1881. Mrs. R. T. Cooke, Somebody’s Neighbors, 39. Spiced carnations of rose and garnet crowned their bed in July and August.
1882. B. Harte, Flip, i. The spiced thicket stretched between him and the summit.
