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单词 alible
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alibleadj.

Brit. /ˈalᵻbl/, U.S. /ˈæləb(ə)l/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: Latin alibilis.
Etymology: < classical Latin alibilis nourishing, nutritious, able to be nourished < alere to nourish (see aliment n.) + -bilis -ble suffix. In later use partly after French alibile (1705 or earlier).
1. Nourishing; nutritious. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > nourishing
nourishing1340
marrowya1382
nutrimentala1398
feeding1398
marroweda1400
nourishanta1400
nurshing?c1425
nutritivec1450
nutrativec1487
nourishable1496
hearty?1550
battling1555
nurturable1579
alimental1586
nutrible1607
alimentary1608
nutrimentive1610
refective1611
battlesome1627
alible1653
nurturing?a1659
alimentous1659
alimonious1659
polytrophic1659
nutrient1661
nutritious1665
alimentarious1671
foodful1735
nutritionarya1852
nutritional1858
nutraceutical1990
1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations lxx. 443 The Later Physitians..do phansie three several Nutritive Humours; namely, Rorem, the dewy substance, Gluten, the glutinous substance, and Cambium, the substance which is immediately transformed into the essence of the parts: and these Fernelius calls succos Nutritios, the alible juices.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 167 The bloud..could scarce assimilate the alible Juice.
1700 J. Treffry Poems 26 Our Senses being Judges fallible, And therefore such not juice that's alible.
1772 M. Berdoe Ess. Nature & Circulation Blood 11 In strong robust men..the blood may perhaps abound with alible molecules.
1801 W. C. Brown tr. G. Borsieri de Kanifeld Inst. Pract. Med. III. xi. 473 For they say, that the lymph and other alible fluids become acid, and have an acid smell before they putrefy.
1852 C. D. Meigs Obstetrics (ed. 2) 187 The blood of the embryo..comes at length to circulate among the cellular mass that is developed on the outer surface of the chorion, amidst which it receives its supplies of oxygen and also its alible elements.
1878 W. Maccall tr. C. Letourneau Biology ii. xi. 172 The most complex substances are at the same time the most easy to assimilate, and also those which have the greatest alible value [Fr. valeur alibile].
1900 tr. G. Pellerin in National Druggist Mar. 102/1 When we separate the alible elements and determine the nature and amount of each, we discover very marked differences in their nature.
1977 M. Hunter tr. New Larousse Gastronomique 11/2 To study the aliments we must begin by selecting the genuinely alible elements of each one and proceed to examine them individually.
2. Able to be nourished. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Alible, nutritive; nourishing; that which may be nourished.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Alible, nourishing, capable of being nourished.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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