sorbent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sorbeo, sorbere, sorbui, sorbitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
drink, absorb;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...acerrumae. apage istas a me sorores, quae hominum sorbent sanguinem. omnis ad perniciem instructa domus opime atque opipare..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...lacu, stridit coquiturque ardente veneno. nec modus est, sorbent avidae praecordia flammae, caeruleusque fluit toto de corpore sudor..."