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palatable, a.|ˈpælətəb(ə)l|
[f. palate n. and v. + -able.]
1. Agreeable to the palate; pleasant to the taste; having a good flavour: savoury.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 165 Spirit..of harts-horn..is not very palatable, which makes some disgust it. 1748Anson's Voy. ii viii. 220 An almost constant supply of fresh and palatable food. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop iv, Ask the ladies to stop to supper, and have a couple of lobsters and something light and palatable.
2. fig. Pleasing or agreeable to the mind or feelings; acceptable; that is or may be ‘relished’.
1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 53 Truth..is seldom palatable to the ears of kings. 1782F. Burney Cecilia ix. i, This counsel [was] by no means palatable. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. vii, Such Fighting-titles will cease to be palatable.
Hence palataˈbility; ˈpalatableness; ˈpalatably adv.
1886Voice (N.Y.) 16 Dec. (Advt.), Its medicinal value and *palatability were not impaired.
c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. ii. iii. (1734) 112 These are seldom or never used otherwise than in Substance,..for *Palatableness. 1770New Dispens. 336/1 Greater regard being here had to palatableness than medicinal efficacy.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 37 Other waters..that are *palatably salt. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 426 A way of dressing mushrooms..palatably. |
