palateable

English

Adjective

palateable (comparative more palateable, superlative most palateable)

1. Alternative spelling of palatable.
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 188:

     “I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present; […]”

   • 1862 May 18, “Gen. Mitchel’s Division. The Withdrawal of Gen. Turchin from Tuscumbia.”, in The New York Times, page 3:

     […] the rebels made a dive pretty much as sharks do when a palateable man falls overboard.

   • [1911], J[ean-]J[acques] Rousseau, translated by Barbara Foxley, Emile or Education (Ernest Rhys, editor, Everyman’s Library: Essays and Belles Lettres), J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Sons Ltd; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, page 115:

     In a state of nature there is no better doctor than a man’s own appetite, and no doubt in a state of nature man could find the most palateable food the most wholesome.