a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. lv. 410 Foule euel þinges þat slakeþ hete beþ nedeful, and scharpe sauowred þinges [L. stiptica] þat comfortiþ and quenchiþ þe hete of þe reynes.

c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 196 Ȝiff a man haue a bade stomoke, he haþ þan an ewill savered mowthe.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. l. 70 Feldis florist ar with flowris, Weill savourit [1489 Adv. Well sawerand].

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S8^v Hearbs & fruits..Not..Sweet and well sauored, But direfull deadly black.

1609 Epist. in W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida (2nd issue) sig. ¶2 So much and such sauored salt of witte is in his Commedies, that they seeme..to be borne in that sea that brought forth Venus.

1720 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 150 Some of them had..preached up that sweet-savoured Doctrine..of unlimited Passive-Obedience and Non-Resistance.

1819 W. MacMichael Journey from Moscow to Constantinople i. 44 One of the chief dishes of our repast was a sort of acid soup they called burst, of which the ill-savoured taste combined with its ominous name, induced us to eat but sparingly.

1892 Outing July 304/2 Breathing pine-scented air, drinking clear, cedar-savored water.

1917 Educ. Found. Mar. 425/1 The Sage of East Aurora is no longer with us to write his crisp criticisms and sweet-savored approbations.

1957 R. Bradbury Dandelion Wine 259 Water-smelling, cool-savored fruits and trees like camphor.

1983 Washington Post 21 Nov. b3/2 Their quiet, folky harmonies and sweet melodics on the song ‘Everywhere’ recalled another '60s-savored group, The Beau Brummels.

1914 D. C. Fisher Mothers & Children 112 They [sc. questions concerning child-training] are..the subject of many a tea-table talk.., punctuated by much-savored mouthfuls of sandwiches and wafers.

1966 Bookseller 23 July 896/3 His biography recalls..a marriage of shared enthusiasms and richly savoured experience.

1981 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 5 Sept. 15/3 Glenda Jackson..turns Stevie's rather humdrum existence into a dazzling study of love, anguish and small, savored moments of joy.

2006 L. B. Fritzinger Diplomat without Portfolio xiii. 302 Seeing the back of Balfour, Brodrick and company had been a much-savoured pleasure.