sorbile

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.

References

• “sorbile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• boilers, reboils, Boilers, liberos