Careful Words

seasoned (adj.)

  Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

John Milton (1608-1674): Areopagitica.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Like seasoned timber, never gives.

George Herbert (1593-1632): Virtue.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt

But being season'd with a gracious voice

Obscures the show of evil?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.

New Testament: Colossians iv. 6.