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Pottage definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POT'TAGE, n. Broth; soup. [See Potage, the more correct orthography.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
2: thick (often creamy) soup [syn: potage, pottage]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English potage, from Anglo-French, from pot pot, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English pott pot Date: 13th century a thick soup of vegetables and often meat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. archaic soup, stew. Etymology: ME f. OF potage (as POT(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pottage Pot"tage (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See Pot, and cf. Porridge, Porringer.] A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] --Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. --Gen. xxv. 34.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Heb. nazid, "boiled", a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen. 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pot'-aj.

See FOOD, III.