impetrable
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin impetrabilis. Compare French impétrable. See impetrate.
Adjective edit
impetrable (comparative more impetrable, superlative most impetrable)
- (obsolete) Capable of being obtained or influenced by petition.
- 1634, Thomas Hobbes, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre:
- Wee must not therefore give our Confederates hope of pardon, either impetrable by words, or purchaseable by money
References edit
- “impetrable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.