a. [f. L. alibil-is, f. al-ĕre to nourish: see -BLE.]
1. Nutritive, nourishing.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Alible, nourishable, comfortable.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 167. The bloud … could scarce assimilate the alible Juice.
1775. Ash, Alible, nourishing.
1879. Syd. Soc. Lex., Alible Substance, the nutritive portion of the chyme, as distinct from the excrementitious.
2. ‘Which may be nourished.’ J. rare–0.
1755. in Johnson.
1775. in Ash.
