Esculent

adj.

Suitable for eating; edible.

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[Latin sculentus, from sca, food, from edere, s-, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

From on the Road by Jack Kerouac:

There were seafood places out there where the buns were hot, and the baskets were good enough to eat too; where the menus themselves were soft with foody 
esculence as though dipped in hot broths roasted dry and good enough to eat too. 

Esculent

adj.

Suitable for eating; edible.

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[Latin sculentus, from sca, food, from edere, s-, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

From on the Road by Jack Kerouac:

There were seafood places out there where the buns were hot, and the baskets were good enough to eat too; where the menus themselves were soft with foody esculence as though dipped in hot broths roasted dry and good enough to eat too. 

Prelapsarian

adj. Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve. [pre- + Latin lpsus, fall; see lapse + -arian.]

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Long Walk therefore depicts the ideal persona, as a virtuous man, who is not merely a prelapsarian angel but one who faces his adversary directly, assuaging his own internal ire and replacing it with a spirit of reconciliation.

Long Walk to Freedom and the mutating face of the epic by Motsa, Zodwa /Journal of Literary Studies

Nn: Nadir

n. 1. Astronomy A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer, diametrically opposite the zenith. 2. The lowest point: the nadir of their fortunes. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic nar (as-samt), opposite (the zenith), from naara, to see, watch; see nr in Semitic roots.]

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In the most illustrious lives as in the most obscure, in animals as in secretary-generals, there is a zenith and there is a nadir, a period when the fur is magnificent, the fortune dazzling.

Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore