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sapid, a.|ˈsæpɪd|
Also 7 sapide.
[ad. L. sapid-us savoury, f. sapĕre (see sapient a.). Cf. F. sapide; the direct descendant is sade (obs.).]
1. Of food, etc.: Readily perceptible by the organs of taste, having a decided taste or flavour; esp. having a pleasant taste, savoury, palatable.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxii. 165 Thus Camels to make the water sapide do raise the mud with their feet. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sapid, well seasoned, savory, that hath a smack. 1761Armstrong Day 140 In salt itself the sapid savour fails. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 103 It [venison] is certainly more sapid than any butchers' meat, and is even strong. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxi. 325 If the patient attempts to take any sapid food..the pain and burning in the mouth are intolerable.
2. In neutral sense: Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; having taste or flavour.
1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xxvi. vii. 1034 Therefore Nature observes this order in the concoction of sapide bodies, that at the first the acerbe taste should take place, then the austere, and lastly, the acide. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. ix. 32 They are genericall Natures, common to all Sapid and Odorate Bodies. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 95 Epsom water..scentless, and hardly sapid. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 10 Those [salts] which are insoluble in water are insipid; such..as are soluble in it, are more or less sapid. 1862G. Wilson Relig. Chem. 5 Neither plants nor animals can exist..in any of the odorous or sapid gases.
3. fig. Grateful to the mind or mental taste.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 217, I must confesse there may some few criticismes or graines of browne salt, and small dashes of vineger be found here and there, to make the discourse more sapid, but this tartnesse is farre from any gall or venome. 1649Jer. Taylor Great Exemp. i. Dis. iv. 125 The life of the spirit, is lessened and impaired according as the gusts of the flesh grow high and sapid. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. viii. 373 These are things..more grateful, sapid, and delightful to the Mind, than the best Apparatus or Provisions of a sensible Good. 1690Norris Refl. Cond. Hum. Life (1691) 179 Such Books..as are Sapid, Pathetic, and Divinely-relishing. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 356 Pamphlets..sapid, exhilarative. 1868Sat. Rev. 19 Dec. 794/2 Quite as important as the possession..of all these faculties, is the temper, spirit, tone, or manner of their use, the something which makes them sapid.
4. absol.
a. the sapid, that which is sapid, sapidity.
b. quasi-n. A sapid substance.
1715Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. v. 299 Sugar..seems to tame and to triumph over all Sapids. 1831T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle iv, I speak of the cruet sauces, where the quintessence of the sapid is condensed in a phial. |