sorbile

comparative more sorbile · superlative most sorbile

1. obsoleteFit to be drunk or sipped.

   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.

   1835, Adam Waldie, The select circulating library: Volume 5, Part 1, page 190

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   […] 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.

   1784, Paul Henry Maty, A New Review: Volume 6, page 439