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For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
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Verse 3. Taste. The most accurate philosophers attribute this faculty to the tongue, ( Calmet.) rather than to the throat, guttur. Hebrew “mouth or palate.” Bible.—But Eliu speaks agreeably to the notions of the vulgar. Calmet.—Intellectus saporum cæteris est in prima lingua, homini et in palato. Pliny xi. 37.
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