Talk:season

suitable time

an appropriate time for something (literary)
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RFV discussion: July–August 2021

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season

Rfv-sense: To copulate with; to impregnate. Apparently quote by Holland is out there Queenofnortheast (talk) 17:44, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• I stole 2 quotes from OED, FTW Wubble You (talk) 15:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I found quite a bit that seems related, but more figurative: to impregnate or instill. For example:

• 1745, A Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 150:

  If you had seasoned me with that philosophy, which formeth the mind to ratiocination, and insensibly accustoms it to be satisfied with nothing but solid reasons, if you had given me those excellent precepts and doctrines, which raise the foul above the assaults of fortune, and reduce her to an unshakeable and always equal temper, and permit her not to be lifted up b prosperity, nor debased by adversity, if you had taken care to give me the knowledge of what we are, and what are the first principles of things, and had assisted me in forming in my mind a fit idea of the greatness of the universe, and of the admirable order and motion of the parts thereof, if, I say, you had instilled into me this kind of philosophy, I should think myself incomparably more obliged to you than Alexander was to his Aristotle

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1763, Edmund Burton, Antient Characters deduced from Classical Remains, page 82:

In minds, not seasoned and impregnated with the due apprehension of those ends, that conduce to ease and security, there is usually a tempestuous discontent, that raises unruly ferments; an unkind gale, by whose resistless powers, the port is overreached.

Kiwima (talk) 00:13, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 22:45, 31 August 2021 (UTC)