prestable
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle or early Modern French prestable, compare Modern French prêtable.[1] By surface analysis, prest + -able.
Adjective
editprestable (not comparable)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prestable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References
edit- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prestable, adj.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “prestable”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.