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alible en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈæ.lɪ.bəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alibilis, from alō (“feed, nourish”) + -ibilis (“-ible”). First attested in c. 1650.

Meanings

1. Nourishing.
   • For in the same way as this dew, by ulterior condensation and adhesion, becomes alible gluten and cambium, whence the parts of the body are constituted […] 1847, William Harvey, On Generation, Sydenham Society, Of the primigenial moisture, page 514; republished as The works of William Harvey, (Please provide a date or year):
   • […] Alible substances, of the most healthy kind, may then generate the same evils as would follow from a deficiency of food. 1827, F. J. V. Broussais, M.D., “A Treatise on Physiology applied to Pathology”, in John Bell, M.D. & René La Roche, M.D., transl., The North American Medical and Surgical Journal — “Analytical Reviews”, volume 3, J. Dobson, page 338:

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