poculent

English

Etymology

From Latin poculentus, from poculum (“cup”).

Adjective

poculent (comparative more poculent, superlative most poculent)

1. (obsolete) Fit for drink.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Some of these herbs, which are not esculent, are notwithstanding poculent; as hops and broom.

Noun

poculent (plural poculents)

1. (obsolete) A drink; something drunk.
   • 1842, John Fletcher, John James Drysdale, Elements of General Pathology, page 467:

     […] the minute attention which the first physicians paid to the esculents and poculents of their patients […]

   • 1859, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, volume 29, page 323:

     The use of unguents acts as raiment against heat and cold by preventing profuse perspiration and evaporation; it is the more necessary in a land where extreme lassitude and thirst necessitate a great consumption of poculents.

   • 1860, Richard Francis Burton, The Lake region of Central Africa, a picture of exploration, page 284:

     The fresh produce, moreover, has few charms as a poculent amongst barbarous and milk-drinking races: the Arabs and the Portuguese in Africa avoid it after the sun is high, believing it to increase bile, and eventually to cause fever […]