sorbile

adj

1. (obsolete)Fit to be drunk or sipped.

   “[…] 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.”

   “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.”