sorbile

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English

Etymology

From Latin sorbilis, from sorbere (“to suck in, to drink down”).

Adjective

sorbile (comparative more sorbile, superlative most sorbile)

  1. (obsolete) Fit to be drunk or sipped.
    • 1784, Paul Henry Maty, A New Review: Volume 6, page 439:
      […] he rejects, also, Lavoisier's hypothesis, who supposes that metallic substances calcined, contain dephlogisticated air; whereas, according to Mr. Lubbock, they contain only the basis of dephlogisticated air, that is the sorbile principle.
    • 1835, Adam Waldie, The select circulating library: Volume 5, Part 1, page 190:
      By dint, however, of some puzzling, and cross-examination of the garçon, I discovered that la soupe is school French, and that the proper appellation of sorbile esculents is potage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sorbile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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