Word of the Day: EDIBILATORY


ETYMOLOGY
badly formed on edibilis (edible),
after adjs. in –atory


EXAMPLE
“…“Amen to your creed!” said I: “edibilatory Epicurism holds the key to all morality: for do we not see now how sinful it is to yield to an obscene and exaggerated intemperance?…”

From: Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman
By Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1828

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