pemmicanize

verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.

The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind.

For coal-tar-dyed hard candies and pemmicanized oranges I gave the jumping Methodists a visit.

2

To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.

His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier.

It would therefore be unjust to M. Beer, since deceased, to allow my work to be supposed a full or faithful version of his successful attempt to pemmicanize tragic interest.

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