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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxii. 165 Thus Camels to make the water sapide do raise the mud with their feet. View more context for this quotation

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sapid, well seasoned, savory, that hath a smack.

1761 J. Armstrong Day 140 In salt itself the sapid savour fails.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 103 It [venison] is certainly more sapid than any butchers' meat, and is even strong.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxi. 325 If the patient attempts to take any sapid food..the pain and burning in the mouth are intolerable.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. vii. 1034 Therefore Nature observes this order in the concoction of sapide bodies, that at the first the acerbe taste should take place, then the austere, and lastly, the acide.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 32 They are genericall Natures, common to all Sapid and Odorate Bodies.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 95 Epsom water..scentless, and hardly sapid.

1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica i. 26 Those [salts] which are insoluble in water are insipid; such..as are soluble in it, are more or less sapid.

1862 G. Wilson Religio Chemici 5 Neither plants nor animals can exist..in any of the odorous or sapid gases.

1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 217 I must confesse there may some few criticismes or graines of browne salt, and small dashes of vineger be found here and there, to make the discourse more sapid, but this tartnesse is farre from any gall or venome.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. iv. 125 The life of the spirit, is lessened and impaired according as the gusts of the flesh grow high and sapid.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 373 These are things..more grateful, sapid, and delightful to the Mind, than the best Apparatus or Provisions of a sensible Good.

1690 J. Norris Refl. upon Conduct Human Life 158 Such Books..as are Sapid, Pathetic and Divinely-relishing.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. vii. 356 Pamphlets..sapid, exhilarative.

1868 Sat. Rev. 19 Dec. 794/2 Quite as important as the possession..of all these faculties, is the temper, spirit, tone, or manner of their use, the something which makes them sapid.