Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A quality perceptible to the sense of taste; flavor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Taste; savor; relish; the power of affecting the organs of taste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely,taste ,flavor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Xenocles affirmed, that ripe fruit had usually a pleasing, vellicating sapor, and thereby provoked the appetite better than sauces or sweetmeats; for sick men of a vitiated stomach usually recover it by eating fruit.
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Xenocles affirmed, that ripe fruit had usually a pleasing, vellicating sapor, and thereby provoked the appetite better than sauces or sweetmeats; for sick men of a vitiated stomach usually recover it by eating fruit.
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Acrostichum, a Bolbophyllum, a rare Aristolochia foliis palmatis, 7 lobis, subtus glaucis; sapor peracerbus, floribus _siphonicis_.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Nam ut color oculorum indicio, sapor palati, odor narium dinoscitur, ita sonus aurium arbitrio subjectus est.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it
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_+S+et in carne remanet forma color ⁊ sapor. _ ac on þe holi fleis bileueð þe shap ⁊ hiu. ⁊ smul of ouelete. ⁊ on þe holi blod héw ⁊ smul of win.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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Huius enim uini miraculosi sapor solito graciosior erat, et odor in propinatoris pollice quamdiu suruixit redoleuit.
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Does the palate exert some peculiar action on the ingesta, so as to give to each a distinct sapor?
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That which emits this _sapor hoereticus_ becomes so initially horrible, that naturally no beauty can ever be discovered in it; the senses and imagination are in that case inhibited by the conscience.
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* Hujus spiritualis et occulti mannae sapor latet in occulto, nisi gustando sentiatur.
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For the Mystics it is in general that graciousness of God which can only be known by those who have themselves actually tasted it; thus one of these: "Hujus spiritualis et occulti mannae sapor latet in occulto, nisi gustando sentiatur."
qms commented on the word sapor
In France I once ate salami
That whelmed me like a tsunami.
I pray for an encore
Of that rarest sapor,
The deepest and finest umami.
March 15, 2018