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caudle

/ˈkɔːdəl/

caudle noun: a drink given to the sick, consisting of ale or wine, bread, and eggs.

Noun

caudle (plural caudles)

  1. A drink given to the sick, consisting of ale or wine, bread, and eggs.
    • Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins...
    • A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.1859, George Meredith, chapter IV, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    posset

Verb

caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)

  1. (transitive) To make into caudle.
  2. (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
    • Will the cold brook, / Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, / To cure thy o'ernight's surfeit?c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3, lines 226–228

Proper noun capitalized: Caudle

Caudle (plural Caudles)

  1. A surname.

caudle meaning in Bengali

caudle in Bengali

তাজা করা

Synonyms of caudle

Forms of caudle

Noun
pluralcaudles
Verb
third-person singular presentcaudles
present participlecaudling
past participlecaudled
pastcaudled
Proper noun
pluralCaudles

Origin of caudle

Inherited from Middle English caudel, from Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldus, calidus (“warm”).

Words formed from caudle

Phrases with caudle

Words that rhyme with caudle

Questions about caudle

What does caudle mean?
Caudle means a drink given to the sick, consisting of ale or wine, bread, and eggs.
What is caudle in Bengali?
Caudle in Bengali is তাজা করা. See Caudle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is caudle?
Caudle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce caudle?
Caudle is pronounced /ˈkɔːdəl/.
What is the plural of caudle?
The plural of caudle is caudles.

Words near caudle in the dictionary

  1. Caudine
  2. caudinid
  3. caudinids
  4. caudipterid
  5. caudipterids
  6. caudle
  7. caudle cup
  8. caudle cups
  9. caudled
  10. caudles
  11. caudling

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