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eatable, a. and n.|ˈiːtəb(ə)l|
[f. eat v. + -able.]
A. adj. That may be eaten, suitable for food; edible, esculent.
1483Cath. Angl. 118 Eteabylle, comessibilis. 1551Turner Herbal i. (1568) M v b, The eatable cucumbre pepon that is to saye rype, is of a fyne substance. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 306 The crosse maketh our Lordes fleshe layde vpon it eatable of men. 1690Consid. Raising Money 15 To lay a Home-Excise upon things eatable and drinkable. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 8 Bread mixed with sea-water..in time becomes so bitter as not to be eatable. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 13 The common eatable oyster.
B. n. That which may be eaten; an article of food. Chiefly in pl.
1672Petty Pol. Anat. 362 More eatables were exported anno 1664, than 1641. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. ii. 46 Bread or other eatables. 1726Berkeley in Fraser Life iv. (1871) 137 Whether a minor be not chargeable for eatables and wearables. 18..Landor Wks. (1868) II. 82 We had brought no eatable with us but fruit and thin marzopane. 1879Beerbohm Patagonia xvi. 242 Till..all the drinkables and eatables in Pedro's shop had disappeared.
Hence ˈeatableness; also eataˈbility, nonce-wd.
1795Southey Letters fr. Spain (1799) 113 P.'s theory of the eatability of cats. 1813Ann. Reg. 1812 Chron. 518 Water-cresses, of the eatableness of which the Persians appeared totally ignorant. |