temptable
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English temptable, probably from Old French temptable, variant of tentable; compare Latin tentābilis; equivalent to tempt + -able.
Adjective edit
temptable (comparative more temptable, superlative most temptable)
- Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
- 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC, page 268:
- As concerning the Infamous and Diabolical Magick, he that would know whether or no a Philoſopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it, […]
References edit
- “temptable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.