spirable
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spirable (comparative more spirable, superlative most spirable)
- (obsolete) Capable of being breathed; respirable.
- 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe[1]:
- ...but the spirable odor & pestilent steame ascending from it, put him out of his bias of congruity...
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “spirable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)