Spice vs Stacte - What's the difference?
spice | stacte |
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in preparing incense; possibly an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
:And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte , and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight. Exodus 30:34, Douay-Rheims-Challoner translation
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between spice and stacte
is that spice is (countable|uncountable) plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food or spice can be (nonce word) while stacte is one of the sweet spices used by the ancient jews in preparing incense; possibly an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.As a verb spice
is to add spice or spices to.spice
English
(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.
