different between zythepsary vs zymurgy

English

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ????? (zûthos, “barley beer”) + ??? (héps?, “to boil”).

Noun

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,^[1]

     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 […]

   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, “The Porcupine Fish,” VI, p. 121,^[2]

     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 […]

See also

• zymurgy

English

Etymology

From zym- +? -urgy.

Noun

zymurgy (plural zymurgies)

1. The chemistry of fermentation with yeasts, especially the science involved in beer and winemaking.

Derived terms

• zymurgic
• zymurgical
• zymurgist

References

• zymurgy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

See also

• zythepsary