manable
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manable (comparative more manable, superlative most manable)
- (obsolete) marriageable
- 1607, Thomas Middleton, The Familie of Love:
- A pile on ye, won't you! had you not been so manable, here are some would have saved you that labour.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “manable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)