cibarious
adjUK /sɪˈbɛəɹi.əs/ · US /sɪˈbɛɹi.əs/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin cibarius, from cibus (“food”).
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Obsolete Relating to food.
- Bordarius, a term and distinction introduced by the Normans, was a bondman able not only to furnish a house, but also to stock a small farm which he enjoyed under the title of bord lands, whence he furnished the Lord's board with eggs, poultry, and the other cibarious produce of his farm.1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston:
- 'So, so,' said I, 'these markets of ours have still some charm left for them then; and yet they hold forth in praise of their three village butchers, as if no cibarious want were left ungratified.'1841 January, John Waters, “Quiet Thoughts on Pastoral Life”, in The Knickerbocker; or, New York monthly magazine, page 19:
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- To subsist these troops necessitated a continued flow of huge, lumbering Fiat trucks[…]But all the traffic of the road was not of a cibarious character[…]1920 December, Livingston Davis, “A Trip to Fiume – May, 1919”, in The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, volume 19, number 114, pages 195–196:
- Nay, when we pass from this particular accomplishment, and consider his general powers—when we remember his range of appetite through the whole cibarious system—his unfailing faculty of digestion[…]1833, New Monthly Magazine, volume 38, number 50, page 223:
- […] where blood suckers (diptera) take an important place by their complicated cibarious parts, innoculating germs developed in their interior.1914, J.H. Pazos, Mosquitoes of the Republic of Cuba, page 3:
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- Family XXII. Hyperina or Uroptera. Foot-jaws small, not covering the cibarious organs.1856, J. van der Hoeven, translated by William Clark, Handbook of zoology, volume 1, page 657:
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Rare Edible.
- Beel[zebub]. So little of regard that clamorous The people are, against the distillation Of grains cibarious because, indeed, There are disturbers that alarm themselves Lest that the armies suffer lack of grains; Who represent still houses as a curse And nurseries of woes and miseries.1857, Jerome Kidder, The Drama of Earth, page 143:
- The flesh of the lapwing is not held in high estimation as a cibarious commodity, though it may be rendered very palatable by an experienced cook.1859, Henry Coleman Folkard, The wild-fowler: a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical, page 301:
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- Of course there be other foodstuffs.[…]The substance most in demand[…]is a ghastly sort of plaster exactly resembling putty. Personally, I have never eaten putty but after trying this other stuff, I am convinced I should prefer putty as being more digestible and equally palatable.[…]All of these concoctions are regarded by the populace as being cibarious, nay more, as being delightful to eat. Truly the ways of the East be strange.1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the wheel of a war ambulance, page 149: