zythepsary

English

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos, “barley beer”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “to boil”).

Noun

zythepsary (plural zythepsaries)

1. (rare, obsolete) A brewery.
   • 1861, uncredited contributor, “Wandering Words” in All the Year Round, Volume 5, No. 106, 4 May, 1961, p. 144,^[1]

     But the oddest things of all are to be found in the dictionaries. Why they are all kept there no one knows; but what man in his senses would use such words as zythepsary for a brew-house, and zumologist for a brewer […]

   • 1937, Saturday Review of Literature - Volume 17, page 13:

     ...and we Employ the same old diastase In orgulous zythepsaries.

   • 1950, The Listener - Volume 43, page 451:

     Zythepsary equipment — there's a vast change nowadays!

   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, “The Porcupine Fish,” VI, p. 121,^[2]

     He was full of inkhorn words going so far as to call grog shops zythepsaries, which seemed several syllables too long to be uttered by any I had ever met within such places […]

See also

• zymurgy