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sorbile, a.|ˈsɔːbɪl|
[ad. L. sorbilis, f. sorbēre to drink. Cf. obs. F. sorbile.]
That may be drunk or supped; liquid.
1620Venner Via Recta viii. 181 Moist and sorbile meats..are most profitable. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 139 A sorbile egge clarifieth the voice. 1808Jamieson s.v. Sop, This most probably refers to sorbile food, what is vulgarly called spoon-meat.
b. That may be absorbed. rare—1.
1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 289 The phænomena of combustion, respiration, &c. can with equal probability be accounted for..by the hypothesis..of a sorbile principle, or oxygen. |