spicen

spicen verb: to make spicy, or to spice.

Verb

spicen (third-person singular simple present spicens, present participle spicening, simple past and past participle spicened)

(transitive) To make spicy, or to spice
- In the evening it was different. Miss Reed attended a concert arranged for charity's sake by the guests. She attended it with Vernon, but that made no difference to Jim. The masterful “rusher ” gives his opponent opportunities occasionally, to keep him in good humor and to spicen the life and...1905, A Little Book of Rutgers Tales, page 119
- She was a vibrant, big-boned, red-faced woman straight out of Chaucer, and we were great friends; because she couldn't leave her cloister and needed to exercise every day, she had had to invent things “to spicen life up a bit.”2002, Andrew Harvey, The Direct Path

The masterful “rusher ” gives his opponent opportunities occasionally, to keep him in good humor and to spicen the life and interest of his quarry.1905, A Little Book of Rutgers Tales, page 119:
She is confident that she has plenty of data bits to spicen up and personalize her first six shows.2012, Steven Fornal, Praying The Price:

third-person singular present	spicens
present participle	spicening
past participle	spicened
past	spicened

From spice + -en.

What does spicen mean?: Spicen means to make spicy, or to spice.
How do you use spicen in a sentence?: The masterful “rusher ” gives his opponent opportunities occasionally, to keep him in good humor and to spicen the life and interest of his quarry.
What part of speech is spicen?: Spicen is a verb.
What is the past tense of spicen?: The past tense of spicen is spicened.

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