a. [ad. L. sorbilis, f. sorbēre to drink. Cf. obs. F. sorbile.] That may be drunk or supped; liquid.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, viii. 181. Moist and sorbile meats … are most profitable.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 139. A sorbile egge clarifieth the voice.
1808. Jamieson, s.v. Sop, This most probably refers to sorbile food, what is vulgarly called spoon-meat.
b. That may be absorbed. rare–1.
1799. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem. (1843), I. 289. The phænomena of combustion, respiration, &c. can with equal probability be accounted for … by the hypothesis … of a sorbile principle, or oxygen.
