palatableadj.

1619 T. Adams Happines of Church 377 It [sc. sin] may taste pleasing and palatable at first, but Leuen is not sowrer at last.

1659 T. Martin Mary Magdalen's Tears wip't Off xviii. 79 I shall conclude with this caution (which I desire you to make use of as a cordial, and not as a conserve to make other things glib and palatable in swallowing) remember that there is great difference betwixt [etc.].

1661 W. Rabisha Whole Body Cookery 104 Add forced meat balls, and Bacon fryed yellow and green; they will either wayes serve forgood handsom boyled meats, pallatable.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 165 Spirit..of harts-horn..is not very palatable, which makes some disgust it.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 60 Strain off, and edulcorate with Sugar to make it palatable.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. viii. 220 An almost constant supply of fresh and palatable food.

1812 J. Melish Trav. in U.S.A. II. 75 We did not much like the appearance of the dish, which was called noodles, but, on tasting it, we found it to be very palatable.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iv. 94 Ask the ladies to stop to supper, and have a couple of lobsters and something light and palatable.

1903 M. A. Stein Sand-buried Ruins Khotan ix. 158 The water from the well..tasted extremely brackish, and neither filtering nor the lavish use of ‘Sparklets’ could make it palatable.

1985 R. Fernandez Malaysian Cookery 131 Their dishes consisted of almost anything edible, and they added spices to make the food palatable.

2000 R. W. Holder Taunton Cider & Langdons xvii. 91 The water used was potable and palatable, coming from a granite aquifer near Redruth in Cornwall.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 53 Truth..is seldom palatable to the ears of kings.

1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 5. ⁋3 They have stated this case in the softest and most palatable terms it will bear.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. i. 11 This counsel [was] by no means palatable.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. vii. 89/2 Such Fighting-titles will cease to be palatable.

1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel II. xxv. 35 Do not think that you should palter with the truth either because it may not be palatable to me, or seem decorous to yourself.

1957 L. Durrell Justine i. 82 Excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at least understandable.

1989 E. S. Person Love & Fateful Encounters Introd. 22 Freud insisted on presenting his theories in the guise of ‘objective’ science in order to render them acceptable and palatable.

2001 Muzik Jan. 115/3 Tracey Thorn's pirated vocals charmingly adorn an already palatable disco-houser.