单词 | sapor |
释义 | saporsapourn. a. A quality such as is perceived by the sense of taste, as sweetness, bitterness, sourness, etc.; a taste, savour; the taste or savour of a substance, esp. of an article of food or drink. Now chiefly in scientific use. † sapor Pontic, sapor styptic: particular ‘sapors’ frequently mentioned by the alchemists as indicative of the nature or condition of substances under examination (see also Pontic adj.1 and n.1, styptic adj. and n.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] smacka1000 savour?c1225 relesec1330 tastea1382 sentimentc1400 smatchc1400 taragec1407 tangc1440 weffec1440 tallage14.. sapor1477 verdurea1513 verdour1526 relish1530 verder1532 gustc1540 waft1542 smacker1549 talent1550 tack1602 tache1607 tincture1610 twang1611 foretaster1632 flavour1693 gusto1713 goût1751 saporosity1794 gustativeness1827 savouring1840 sipidity1880 palate1973 1477 Norton Ord. Alch. v, in Ashm. (1652) 63 Which I teach you to knowne by signes fowre, By Colour, Odour, Sapor and Liquore. 1477 Norton Ord. Alch. v. n Ashm. (1652) 69 As Sapor of Meates chaungeth your Tastinge. a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 23 in Poems (1981) 132 Lyke as a strand of water or a spring Haldis the sapour of his fontall well. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid v. Prol. 54 Not jawyn fra tun to tun, In fresche sapour new fro the berrie run. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 6158 in Wks. (1931) I In thare mouth, ane taist, as I heir tell, Off sweit and Supernaturall Sapowris. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 628 The other Nerue is sprinckled into the flesh of the Tongue..and by that meanes the Tongue is made apprehensiue of Sapors. 1638 D. Featley Transubstant. Exploded 76 You tast nothing but bread in the one, and the sapour of wine in the other. 1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum iv. 117 Whil'st Colours strike the Eyes, Odours the Smell, Sapours the Tast. 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 91 Without being over-power'd by some Herb of a stronger Taste, so as to endanger the native Sapor and Vertue of the rest. 1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. §1 To discover the shape of those little particles of matter which distinguish the various sapors, odors, and colors of bodies. 1826 H. Smith Tor Hill III. 314 The exquisite sapor of their French dishes. 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 857/1 There remains a large class of pure sapors, of which we take cognizance without the assistance of smell, and which are altogether dissimilar to any tactile impressions: such as the bitter of quinine. 1861 E. Lankester Food 256 We will call these substances which are tasted, sapours, in opposition to those which are called odours. b. In generalized sense: Quality in relation to the sense of taste. ΚΠ 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis i. 10 The gullet and conveying parts are [not] appertaining unto sapor. 1680 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) vi. 394 Sapour being an Accident or an Affection of matter that relates to our..Organs of Tast. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Saporifick Particles, are such as by their Action on the Tongue occasion that Sensation which we call Taste or Sapor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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