Sekirov Dictionary

congee

UK /ˈkɒndʒi/US /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/

noun 7
verb 5
forms 3

noun7

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A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
- In a past life in Fuzhou, it represented some reality other than the one of daily congee and pickled turnips, cabbage and boiled rip soup. — 2022
Leave, formal permission for some action.
(no longer used) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
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(no longer used) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
- As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…]. — 1603
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(no longer used) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
- So courteous conge both did giue and take, With right hands plighted, pledges of good will. — 1590
(no longer used) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
(Scotland, no longer used) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.

verb5

(no longer used) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
(no longer used) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
(no longer used) To give congee.
(no longer used) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
(no longer used) To give formal permission to do something; to license.

forms

congeed · congeeing · congees

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