Meaning of Savor | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of savour.

US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[B]y our Sences which conceiue al Colours, Sounds, Sents, Sauors, and Féelings; wée may ſee, heare, ſmell, taſt, and feele, that one ſelfſame workman made both the Sences, and the things that are ſubiect to the Sences.”

“Matr[euis]. Gurney, I vvonder the king dies not, / Being in a vault vp to the knees in vvater, / To vvhich the channels of the caſtell runne, / […] / Gurn[ey]. And ſo do I, Matreuis: yeſternight / I opened but the doore to throvv him meate, / And I vvas almoſt ſtifeled vvith the ſauor.”

“[W]hy is not my life a continual Joy? and the ſavor of Heaven perpetually upon my ſpirit?”

“[page 848] Taste⟳, gives knowledge of the savors of material things. […] [page 849] The primary facts of knowledge, form⟳, color, sound⟳, weight, savor, odor, etc., can be obtained only by the direct⟳ action of material things upon the senses and cannot be taught from books.”

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