alible
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin alibilis, from alō (“feed, nourish”) + -ibilis (“-ible”). First attested in c. 1650.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæ.lɪ.bəl/
Adjective
[edit]alible (comparative more alible, superlative most alible)
- Nourishing.
- 1827, F. J. V. Broussais, M.D., “A Treatise on Physiology applied to Pathology”, in John Bell, M.D. & René La Roche, M.D., transl., The North American Medical and Surgical Journal — “Analytical Reviews”[1], volume 3, J. Dobson, page 338:
- […] Alible substances, of the most healthy kind, may then generate the same evils as would follow from a deficiency of food.
- 1847, William Harvey, On Generation[2], Sydenham Society, Of the primigenial moisture, page 514; republished as The works of William Harvey, (Please provide a date or year):
- For in the same way as this dew, by ulterior condensation and adhesion, becomes alible gluten and cambium, whence the parts of the body are constituted […]
References
[edit]- “alible”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “alible”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.