sperable
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin sperabilis. Compare esperance and see -ible.
Adjective edit
sperable (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Within the range of hope; proper to be hoped for.
- 1622 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “An Advertisement Touching an Holy VVarre. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC, page 107:
- wee may either cast it away, if it be found but a Bladder; Or discharge it, of so much as is vaine, and not sperable.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sperable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)