zythepsary

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

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,

     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,

     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 […]

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