Sorbeo, sorbes. sórbui, só: birum, pe. cor. vel sorpsi, sorptum, sorbêre. To suppe: as one suppeth pottage.Sorbere ouum. Plin. To sup vp an egge.Terra ari da sorbet cælestes aquas.Ouid.Charybdis sorbet fluctus in abruptum.Virg.Flumina sorbentur terra.Ouid.Cruor vestigia sorbet. Sil. Greate store of bloud fisleth the print of steps, that they cannot be perceiued.Puppis sorber mare vasto hiatu. Valer. Flac. The shippe receiueth in water, &c. Medullas sorbere., Lucan. Sitis sorbet ora.Stat.Thirst conlmneth the face, or maketh leane.Sanguis sorbetur ab hubere. Lucan. Is sucked. Sorbere odia alicuius, per translationem. Ci. To sustaine hatred and displeasure paciently. Sorbere animo. Ci. To conceiue & imagine in his mind.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sorbĕo, ŭi, 2 (collat. forms: pres. subj. sorbamus, App. M. 2, p. 119; perf. sorpsi, acc. to Charis. p. 217, and Diom. p. 363; cf. the compounds), v. a. [akin with Gr. r(ofe/w; cf. O. H. Germ. swarb, swirbil, whirlpool], to sup up, suck in, drink down, swallow (freq. and class.). I.Lit. (class.; syn. haurio): hominum sanguinem, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 5: calidum sanguinem ex homine, Plin. 28, 1, 2, 4: crudum ovum, id. 29, 3, 11, 42; Luc. 7, 843: margaritas aceto liquefactas, Suet. Calig. 37 et saep.—Absol.: sorbet dormiens, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 6 sq.—Prov.: simul flare sorbereque haud facile, to drink and whistle at the same time, i. e. to do two things at once, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 104.—B.Transf., to suck in, draw in, swallow up, absorb (poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Lucr. 6, 1130: (Charybdis vastos) Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, Verg. A. 3, 422: fretum, Ov. M. 7, 64: flumina, id. ib. 1, 40: sorbent avidae praecordia flammae, id. ib. 9, 172: (quae sorbuit terrae hiatus), Plin. 2, 80, 82, 194: minus sorbet politura charta, id. 13, 12, 25, 81: quā sorbeat aëra sannā Tullia, Juv. 6, 306.—II.Trop., to swallow down, endure, bear, brook, etc.: quid eum non sorbere animo, quid non haurire cogitatione, cuius sanguinem non bibere censetis?Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10: odia (corresp. to concoquere), id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 5.