English

Adjective

sorbile ‎(comparative more sorbile, superlative most sorbile)

1. (obsolete) Fit to be drunk or sipped.
   • 1784, Paul Henry Maty, A New Review: Volume 6 (page 439)

     […] he rejects, also, Lavoisier's hypothesis, who supposes that metallic substances calcined, contain dephlogisticated air; whereas, according to Mr. Lubbock, they contain only the basis of dephlogisticated air, that is the sorbile principle.

   • 1835, Adam Waldie, The select circulating library: Volume 5, Part 1 (page 190)

     By dint, however, of some puzzling, and cross-examination of the garçon, I discovered that la soupe is school French, and that the proper appellation of sorbile esculents is potage.