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saporous, a. rare.|ˈseɪpərəs|
[ad. mod.L. sapōrōsus, f. sapōr-em: see sapor and -ous.]
Of or pertaining to taste; having flavour or taste; yielding some kind of taste. † Also, agreeable to the taste, savoury.
a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 283 We read of Manna that it was saporous to all palates. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Saporous, are such Bodies as are capable of yielding some kind of Taste when touch'd with our tongue; but those that afford no Taste, are called Insipid. 1813T. Busby tr. Lucretius II. iv. 748 The sharp and jagged in their progress tear The suffering nerves, and wage saporous war. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 590 We omit no solitary supplement..which can contribute to such cunning combinations as result in saporous felicity. |