Meaning of cibarious | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relating to food.
   not-comparable, obsolete
2. Relating to eating or digestion.
   not-comparable, obsolete, rare
3. Edible.
   not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Bordarius, a term and distinction introduced by the Normans, was a bondman able not only to furnish a house, but also to stock⟳ a small farm which he enjoyed under the title of bord lands, whence he furnished the Lord's board⟳ with eggs, poultry, and the other cibarious produce⟳ of his farm.”

“'So, so,' said I, 'these markets of ours have⟳ still some charm left for them then; and yet they hold⟳ forth in praise⟳ of their three village butchers, as if no cibarious want⟳ were left ungratified.'”

“To subsist these troops necessitated a continued flow⟳ of huge, lumbering Fiat trucks[…]But all the traffic of the road was not of a cibarious character[…]”

“Nay, when we pass⟳ from this particular accomplishment, and consider⟳ his general powers—when we remember⟳ his range of appetite through the whole cibarious system—his unfailing faculty of digestion[…]”

“[…] where blood suckers (diptera) take⟳ an important place⟳ by their complicated cibarious parts, innoculating germs developed in their interior.”

“Family XXII. Hyperina or Uroptera. Foot-jaws small, not covering the cibarious organs.”

“Beel[zebub]. So little of regard that clamorous The people are, against the distillation Of grains cibarious because, indeed, There are disturbers that alarm themselves Lest that the armies suffer⟳ lack of grains; Who represent⟳ still houses as a curse And nurseries of woes and miseries.”

“The flesh of the lapwing is not held in high estimation as a cibarious commodity, though it may be rendered very palatable by an experienced cook⟳.”

“Of course there be other foodstuffs.[…]The substance most in demand⟳[…]is a ghastly sort⟳ of plaster exactly resembling putty. Personally, I have⟳ never eaten putty but after trying this other stuff, I am convinced I should prefer⟳ putty as being more digestible and equally palatable.[…]All of these concoctions are regarded by the populace as being cibarious, nay more, as being delightful to eat⟳. Truly the ways of the East be strange.”

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