Anise vs Anile - What's the difference?
anise | anile |
An umbelliferous plant () growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent.
(US)
Characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.
* 1844 , Sydney Smith, The Works of Sydney Smith , “Wittman’s Travels” (Edinburgh Review, 1803),
* 1880 , Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the mystics?:?a contribution to the history of religious opinion ,
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As a verb anise
is .As an adjective anile is
characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.anise
English
(wikipedia anise)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Although fennel is widely referred to as anise (even in books and articles), such usage is considered incorrect by many.Derived terms
() * anise hyssop * anise seed * aniseed * anisette * anisole * Chinese anise * star aniseSee also
* five-spice powder * mastika * ouzo * rakiAnagrams
* ----anile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)pages 248–249
- Dr. Wittman, too, was passing over the same ground trodden by Bonaparte in his Syrian expedition, and had an ample opportunity of inquiring its probable object, and the probably success which (but for the heroic defence of Acre), might have attended it?;?he was on the theatre of Bonaparte’s imputed crimes, as well as his notorious defeat?;?and might have brought us back, not anile conjecture, but sound evidence of events which must determine his character, who may determine our fate.
page 347
- Romanticism, so sanguine and so venturous in its revolutionary youth, grew anile in its premature decrepitude?;?mumbled its credos?; ?cursed its heretics?—?and died.