coquinary

English

Etymology

From Latin coquīnārius.

Adjective

coquinary (comparative more coquinary, superlative most coquinary)

1. (rare) Synonym of culinary.
   • 1761, The Life and Opinions of Bertram Montfichet, New York, N.Y., London: Garland Publishing, Inc., published 1974, →ISBN, page 95:

     […] Margery, as blythe as a primroſe, having deſcended to the kitchen in her holiday geers, was in a hurry about her coquinary manœuvres; […]

   • 1810, Henry J[ohn] Todd, Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer. Collected from Authentick Documents […], London: […] F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell and Davies, and R. H. Evans, pages 251–252 and 352:

     Nor has the painter forgotten to represent the mormal, or gangrene, on his shin; a circumstance, as Mr. Tyrwhitt has observed, by which Jonson, in his Sad Shepherd, has also described a Cook. Of the coquinary skill, and the critical knowledge of London ale, by which this character is distinguished, some descriptive circumstances may be entertaining. […] Lumbard mustard is another coquinary and topographical article in the same volume.

   • 1847, [William Makepeace] Thackeray, Albert [Richard] Smith, Gilbert [Abbott] a Beckett, the Brothers Mayhew [i.e., Horace Mayhew; Henry Mayhew], “Sir Thomas Brown on Welsh Rabbits. Being a Continuation of His “Inquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors.””, in The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities, second series (1844–1853), London: John Camden Hotten, […]; New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Welford and Co., published 1853, page 169:

     If we provide ourselves with about a Selibra or half pound of the Cheese, entitulated Duplex Glocestrius, or Double Gloucester; and then go on to to cut the intrinsic caseous Matter into tenuous Segments of Laminæ; and, positing such Segments within the coquinary commodity distinguished by Culinarians as the Furnus Bataviæ or Dutch Oven, submit the same to the Fire, until by the action of the Caloric they become mollified unto Semiliquidity: […]

   • 1862 August 26, Quis [pseudonym], “Notes Whilst Resting”, in George W[illiam] Johnson, Robert Hogg, editors, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman. […], volume III, new series; XXVIII, old series, number 74, London: […] [T]he Proprietors, […], page 412, column 2:

     Now, be it known to you, O reader, that these Raspberries are only 4d. a-pound, small-seeded and luscious, and be it also known to you as a lesson learned during pilgrimages in many lands that it is pleasant to taste of the peculiar coquinary compounds of those lands, so I committed my Raspberries to the discretion of the widow Falaise—and was I not rewarded thereby?

   • 1864, “Christmas in the Colonies”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation., volume V, London: Office, […], page 21, column 1:

     Having thus insured the proper preparation of the pudding, he left it to his cook, with instructions for it to be well boiled, which my fair readers who are versed in the coquinary art know to be most essential.

   • 1879, “Lake Lucerne”, in “A Man’s a Man for a’ That”, New York, N.Y.: […] G. P. Putnam’s Sons, […], page 387:

     When the minister and his wife entered their new home, a great assembly of both parties gathered, and all the ladies struggled for preëminence in the delicious cates and viands they brought. And if truth of conflicting dogma was to be tested (as I fancy was intended,) by coquinary superiority, I fear there were many present who could not tell right from wrong; […]