alible

comparative more alible · superlative most alible

1. Nourishing.

   […] Alible substances, of the most healthy kind, may then generate the same evils as would follow from a deficiency of food.

   1827, F. J. V. Broussais, M.D., “A Treatise on Physiology applied to Pathology”, in John Bell, M.D. & René La Roche, M.D., transl., The North American Medical and Surgical Journal — “Analytical Reviews”, volume 3, J. Dobson, page 338

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   For in the same way as this dew, by ulterior condensation and adhesion, becomes alible gluten and cambium, whence the parts of the body are constituted […]

   1847, William Harvey, On Generation, Sydenham Society, Of the primigenial moisture, page 514; republished as The works of William Harvey, (Please provide a date or year)