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gustable, a. and n. Now rare.|ˈgʌstəb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. gustābilis, f. gustāre to taste: see gust v.1 and -able.]
A. adj.
1. That can be tasted, tasteable; also, having a pleasant taste, appetizing.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xv. iii, Mylk, hony & herbes gustable. 1601–2W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 15 If the thing that is sold bee liquide and gustable, and the buyer doth taste of it. 1615G. Sandys Trav. ii. 127 Of so many thousand wels..this only affoordeth gustable waters. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. v. viii. (1714) 316 A Gustable thing seen or smelt, excites the Appetite. 1838New Monthly Mag. LIII. 557 Oysters have furnished food, both mental and gustable, to the wag. 1870A. L. Adams Nile Valley & Malta 36 The removal of the skin adds apparently to the gustable qualities of these birds.
2. Of qualities: Perceptible by the sense of taste. Of perceptions: Gustatory.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 33 Some [qualities] are tangible..others gustable. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. vii. 67 A blind man cannot conceive colours, but either as some audible, gustable, odoriferous or tactile qualities. c1705Bp. Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) 476 Gustable and olefactible perceptions. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iii. vi. (1870) I. 333 The higher animals perceive an increased number of gustable differences.
B. n. A thing that can be tasted; an article of food.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. iv, The touch acknowledgeth no gustables; The tast no fragrant smell or stinking sent. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. iii. (1821) 87 Should we judge of gustables by our taste. 1838A. B. Granville Spas Germany 85 What gastronome..can hope to partake of the tithe part of this long list of gustables? 1895Outing (U.S.) Oct. 28/1 A table that literally cries aloud with its weight of gustables. |