aperitive

Example Sentences

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Greenbar Craft Distillery's Grand Poppy organic aperitive was inspired by hikes in Griffith Park and created with local, organic ingredients that pay homage to Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2015

The aperitive virtue of a key, the attractive virtue of a hook.

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

But experience is a fine aperitive to the mind.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

Before serving dinner he placed upon the table, in the guise of an aperitive, a fat-bellied bottle of native wine, a nectar from the slopes of Vesuvius with a slight taste of sulphur.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

He discussed the "efficacy" of millepedes, which he found to be "very diuretical and aperitive."

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.