poculent

comparative more poculent · superlative most poculent

1. obsoleteFit for drink.

   Some of these herbs, which are not esculent, are notwithstanding poculent; as hops and broom.

   1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

plural poculents

1. obsoleteA drink; something drunk.

   […] the minute attention which the first physicians paid to the esculents and poculents of their patients […]

   1842, John Fletcher, John James Drysdale, Elements of General Pathology, page 467

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   The use of unguents acts as raiment against heat and cold by preventing profuse perspiration and evaporation; it is the more necessary in a land where extreme lassitude and thirst necessitate a great consumption of poculents.

   1859, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, volume 29, page 323

   The fresh produce, moreover, has few charms as a poculent amongst barbarous and milk-drinking races: the Arabs and the Portuguese in Africa avoid it after the sun is high, believing it to increase bile, and eventually to cause fever […]

   1860, Richard Francis Burton, The Lake region of Central Africa, a picture of exploration, page 284