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sorbile

sorbile adjective: fit to be drunk or sipped.

Adjective

sorbile (comparative more sorbile, superlative most sorbile)

  1. (obsolete) Fit to be drunk or sipped.
    • […] 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
    • 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

Forms of sorbile

comparativemore sorbile
superlativemost sorbile

Origin of sorbile

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

Questions about sorbile

What does sorbile mean?
Sorbile means fit to be drunk or sipped.
What part of speech is sorbile?
Sorbile is an adjective.

Words near sorbile in the dictionary

  1. sorbicillactones
  2. sorbicillin
  3. sorbicillinoid
  4. sorbicillinoids
  5. sorbierite
  6. sorbile
  7. sorbin
  8. sorbine
  9. sorbing
  10. sorbinil
  11. sorbinose

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