Seaven vs Leaven - What's the difference?
seaven | leaven |
Seaven has no English definition.
* {{quote-book
, year=1670
, author=Richard Lassels
, title=A Compleat Iovrney Through Italy
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
(figurative) Anything that makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
* Bible, Luke xii. 1
To add a leavening agent.
To cause to rise by fermentation.
(figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
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To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
* Milton
Seaven is likely misspelled.
Seaven has no English definition.
As a noun leaven is
any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.As a verb leaven is
to add a leavening agent.seaven
English
Cardinal number
(head)citation, page=139 , passage=I ?aw the Trophies'' of ''Marius cut anciently in ?tone in honour of that great General, who from a?common ?oldier came by his vertue, to be ?eaven times Con?ul.}}
leaven
English
Noun
(en noun)- Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Derived terms
* leavenless * natural leavenVerb
(en verb)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.
