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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