Obs. Also 6 codignac, -dinac, 7 -denac, -din(n)iack, codigny. [a. F. codignac, -at (Cotgr.), mod. cotignac, It. cod-, cotognata (Florio), quince marmalade, f. cod-, cotogno:—L. cotōneus, var. of cydōneus QUINCE. See also COTINIATE.] Quince-marmalade, quiddany.
1539. Anne Basset, in M. A. E. Wood, Lett. Illust. Ladies, III. 149. The King … commandeth me to write unto you for more of the codiniac.
1577. Harrison, England, II. vi. (1877), I. 148. Conserues, suckets, codinacs, marmilats.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, VI. xxxix. 708. The Codignac or Marmelade made with honie … is very good and profitable for the stomacke.
1611. Cotgr., Codignat, Codiniack, or marmalade of Quinces. Ibid., Cotignac, Codinniack.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., II. xii. § 4. 296. Several confections, as Marmalade, Codigny, &c.
