Meaning of Savour | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An aroma or smell.
   UK, countable
2. The quality which the sense of taste detects; also (countable), a specific flavour or taste, especially one different from the predominant one.
   UK, uncountable
3. An appealing or appetizing flavour, especially one which is savoury or strong.
   UK, countable
4. A distinctive sensation like a flavour or taste, or an aroma or smell.
   UK, countable, figuratively
5. A particular quality, especially a small amount of it; a hint or trace of something.
   UK, countable, figuratively
6. A quality which is appealing or enjoyable; merit, value.
   UK, countable, figuratively
7. A reputation.
   UK, archaic, countable, figuratively
8. Enjoyment or taste for something; appreciation; pleasure; relish; (countable) an instance of this.
   UK, figuratively, uncountable
9. Knowledge; understanding.
   UK, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And Noe [Noah] made an aulter vnto the LORDE⸝ and toke of all maner of clene beaſtes and all maner of clene foules⸝ and offred ſacrifyce vppon the aulter. And the LORDE ſmellyd a ſwete ſavoure and ſayd in his hert: I wyll henceforth no more curſe the erth for mannes ſake⸝ […]”

“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.”

“Then Melfoil beat, and Honey-ſuckles pound, / VVith theſe alluring Savours ſtrevv the Ground; […]”

“[M]ethought I smelled the agreeable savour of roast beef; […]”

“He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.”

“[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.”

“Cyders differ one from another eſpecially in colour and ſauour or reliſh.”

“A Table richly ſpred, in regal mode, / VVith diſhes pill'd, and meats of nobleſt ſort / And ſavour, […]”

“Viands of various kinds allure the taſte / Of choiceſt ſort and ſavour; rich repaſt!”

“[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.”

“Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon [a millefeuille pastry] of all its savour.”

“Ye are the ſalte of the earth: but if the ſalte haue loſt his ſauour, vvherevvith ſhal it be ſalted? It is thenceforthe good for nothing, but to be caſt out, & to be troden vnder fote of men.”

“His houſe is as empty of Religion, as the vvhite of an Egg is of ſavour.”

“"I have thought till now," she said, "that the Tower of Tillietudlem might have been a place of succour to those that are ready to perish, even if they were na sae deserving as they should have been—but I see auld fruit has little savour—our suffering and our services have been of an ancient date."”

“[T]he lads felt that when no more tales could be told of the king of Maremma, savour would be gone out of the goatsflesh roasted in the charcoal in the woods, and the wineflask passed round when the last of the long furrows had been turned across the plains.”

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

“Come ſir, this admiration is much of the ſauour of other your nevv prankes, I doe beſeech you vnderſtand my purpoſes aright, […]”

“The LORDE loke vpon you, ⁊ iudge it, for ye haue made the ſauoure of vs to ſtynke before Pharao and his ſeruauntes, and haue geuen them a ſwerde in their handes, to ſlaye vs.”

“VVe left Arnulphus [i.e., Arnulf of Chocques] the laſt Patriarch of Jeruſalem; ſince vvhich time the bad ſavour of his life came to the Popes noſe, vvho ſent a Legate to depoſe him.”

“Then came in hall the messenger of Mark, / A name of evil savour in the land, / The Cornish king.”

“Gerald shook his head in the savour of triumph.”

“[M]any of them were wery of theyr life, beyng very deſyrous of him [Jesus], of whom they had a certeyne ſauour and vnderſtandyng (ſimple though it wer:) who ſodenly ſhould renewe all kynde of men, and theyr ſynnes clerely abolyſhed, bryng them vnto the kyngdõ of righteouſneſſe.”

“But as I can ſee no merit, / Leading to this favour: / So the vvay to fit me for it, / Is beyond my ſavour.”

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