Meaning & use
ingredience
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An ingredient, or ingredients collectively; the component parts that make up a mixture (archaic or literary).
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The old recipe listed its ingredience using old-fashioned measures like drams and pinches.
Shakespeare's Macbeth speaks of the 'ingredience of our poison'd chalice' returning to plague its maker.
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A now largely archaic or literary singular and collective form of 'ingredient,' most familiar from its appearance in Shakespeare.
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