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posset

[ UK /pˈɒsɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer

How To Use posset In A Sentence

  • I think I love the names of trifles, possets, fools and syllabubs more than I enjoy eating them.
  • Spiced cider and the alcoholic posset were served hot, but the staple beverage everywhere was beer, beginning with breakfast.
  • Tertiam denique mediam scientiam, qua ex altissima et inscrutabili comprehensione cujusque liberi arbitrii in sua essentia intuitus est, quid pro sua innata libertate, si in hoc, vel illo, vel etiam infinitis rerum ordinibus collocaretur, acturum esset, cum tamen posset, si vellet, facere re reipsa oppositum.... Rough Notes on Scientia Media
  • In ipsa quóque rupe ostendebatur mihi figura impressæ manus ad digitorum extensionem, quo artificiosius humanano studio sculpi non posset, quam referunt Christum sua venerabili manu inclinando ad rupem efficisse dum Iudæi impuras manus ad capiendum iniecerunt in eum. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Choose from lemon posset with raspberries, vanilla cheesecake with honeycomb and caramel, and a tiny little apple crumble with custard.
  • Stella has given him some tiles to roof his house; he would like a cloak as well: cum pluvias madidumque Iovem perferre negaret et rudis hibernis villa nataret aquis, plurima, quae posset subitos effundere nimbos, muneribus venit tegula missa tuis. horridus ecce sonat Boreae stridore December: Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • Hac quidem deliberatione impedimentum amovere cupivimus quod detrimentum inferre posset aperiendae dialogo ianuae atque ita Episcopos «Fraternitatemque S. RORATE CÆLI
  • The meal was light - perhaps eggs and a posset (hot milk fortified with sugar, spices, eggs, and wine, brandy, or ale, and on one notable occasion with additional soporifics by Lady Macbeth).
  • To serve, simply spoon whipped posset into four to six individual ramekins and top with a scoop of berries.
  • To serve, place blood orange segments and chopped rhubarb on top of the set lemon posset and enjoy with the shortbread.
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