cibarious

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cibarius, from cibus (“food”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cibarious (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Relating to food.
    • 1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston:
      Bordarius, a term and distinction introduced by the Normans, was a bondman able not only to furnish a house, but also to stock a small farm which he enjoyed under the title of bord lands, whence he furnished the Lord's board with eggs, poultry, and the other cibarious produce of his farm.
    • 1841 January, John Waters, “Quiet Thoughts on Pastoral Life”, in The Knickerbocker; or, New York monthly magazine, page 19:
      'So, so,' said I, 'these markets of ours have still some charm left for them then; and yet they hold forth in praise of their three village butchers, as if no cibarious want were left ungratified.'
    • 1920 December, Livingston Davis, “A Trip to Fiume – May, 1919”, in The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, volume 19, number 114, pages 195–196:
      To subsist these troops necessitated a continued flow of huge, lumbering Fiat trucks But all the traffic of the road was not of a cibarious character
  2. (obsolete, rare) Relating to eating or digestion.
    Synonym: digestive
    • 1833, New Monthly Magazine, volume 38, number 50, page 223:
      Nay, when we pass from this particular accomplishment, and consider his general powers—when we remember his range of appetite through the whole cibarious system—his unfailing faculty of digestion
    • 1914, J.H. Pazos, Mosquitoes of the Republic of Cuba, page 3:
      where blood suckers (diptera) take an important place by their complicated cibarious parts, innoculating germs developed in their interior.
    • 1856, J. van der Hoeven, translated by William Clark, Handbook of zoology, volume 1, page 657:
      Family XXII. Hyperina or Uroptera. Foot-jaws small, not covering the cibarious organs.
  3. (rare) Edible.
    • 1857, Jerome Kidder, The Drama of Earth, page 143:
      Beel. So little of regard that clamorous
      The people are, against the distillation
      Of grains cibarious because, indeed,
      There are disturbers that alarm themselves
      Lest that the armies suffer lack of grains;
      Who represent still houses as a curse
      And nurseries of woes and miseries.
    • 1859, Henry Coleman Folkard, The wild-fowler: a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical, page 301:
      The flesh of the lapwing is not held in high estimation as a cibarious commodity, though it may be rendered very palatable by an experienced cook.
    • 1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the wheel of a war ambulance, page 149:
      Of course there be other foodstuffs. The substance most in demand is a ghastly sort of plaster exactly resembling putty. Personally, I have never eaten putty but after trying this other stuff, I am convinced I should prefer putty as being more digestible and equally palatable. All of these concoctions are regarded by the populace as being cibarious, nay more, as being delightful to eat. Truly the ways of the East be strange.
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