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.
Symposiacs 2004
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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 William Griffith
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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 Frances Ellen Lord
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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 Joseph Hall
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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.
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907
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* Hujus spiritualis et occulti mannae sapor latet in occulto, nisi gustando sentiatur.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863
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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."
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863
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