Synonyms for comestible
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh-mes-tuh-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈmɛs tə bəl |
Définition of comestible
Origin :- 1837, "article of food," from French comestible (14c.), from Late Latin comestibilis, from Latin comestus, past participle of comedere "eat up, consume," from com- "thoroughly" (see com-) + edere "to eat" (see edible). It was attested earlier as an adjective (late 15c.) meaning "fit to eat" but seems to have fallen from use 17c., and the word was reintroduced from French.
- noun food
- He wrote to Paris and London for all the delicacies of the "comestible" shops.
- Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
- The seeds yield an oil that is used for illumination and as a comestible.
- Extract from : « The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines » by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
- If one comestible ran short, there should be another to take its place.
- Extract from : « The Pace That Kills » by Edgar Saltus
- But the abalone—as a Christian comestible he is a stranger to me and the tooth o' me.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Ambrose Bierce » by Ambrose Bierce
- Even Vaniman could not have used more bitter words to express his detestation for soap as a comestible.
- Extract from : « When Egypt Went Broke » by Holman Day
- Hence the missionary as a comestible is more highly esteemed by the natives than the missionary as a reformer.
- Extract from : « Phyllis of Philistia » by Frank Frankfort Moore
- Bread is the only comestible which the custom of well-bred people permits to be laid off your plate.
- Extract from : « How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits » by Samuel R Wells
- Many a cassowary has been complaining bitterly of the high cost of this comestible.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 » by Various
- Occasionally, where his memory of that language failed him, he would put down the name of some comestible in Greek.
- Extract from : « Albania » by E. F. Knight
- The railway drays, laden with the comestible treasures of the ocean, no longer thundered through the covered ways.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
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