practiseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more practiseable
form: most practiseable
Etymology: From practise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This (my Lord) is to let you know, you are to reſerue your Humility for thoſe Actions, paſſing betweene God and Your ſelfe: But that in other caſes you can neither haue too much Wealth, nor ouer great power; ſince Obedience is due to Wiſedome; there being certaine vertues not practiſeable by the poore.
ref: 1634, [Jean-Louis Guez] de Balzac, translated by W[illiam] T[yrwhit], The Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated into English, According to the Last Edition., London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Richard Clotterbuck, […], page 22:
text: [W]hat your laws are to finde a redreſſe, or what wayes you may have practiſeable, & what Inſtruments to follow them for your good, I am not capable to judge; […]
ref: 1649 January 19, I. S., A Letter from Edinburgh, Concerning the Difference of the Proceedings of the Well-Affected in Scotland, from the Proceedings of the Army in England, London: [s.n.], signature A3, verso:
text: Another day he exercised the battel-axe, which he so dextrously wielded, both in the nimble, strong and smooth management of that weapon, and that in all the feats practiseable by it, that he passed Knight of Armes in the field, and at all Essayes.
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], “How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the Day”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 1st book, page 70:
text: [W]herefore now the whole end of the said survey being fully atchieved, I hope it will be admitted as practiseable and sufficient, since it hath been actually and without exception practised, by setting out of the lands thereby.
ref: 1656, William Petty, edited by Thomas Aiskew Larcom, The History of the Survey of Ireland, Commonly Called the Down Survey, […], Dublin: For the Irish Archæological Society, published 1851, pages 128–129:
text: Such precepts as concerned the conscience of particular persons, because they are practiseable by every person in particular, must needs be understood always to oblige them so long as they were circumcised.
ref: c. 1659, Herbert Thorndike, “The Right of the Christian State in Church-Matters, According to the Scriptures”, in The Theological Works of Herbert Thorndike, Sometime Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, volume VI, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, published 1856, page 99:
text: Note, Theſe four Rules for caſting the Variation, by Obſervation of the Suns Azimuth, are as well practiſeable in South as in North Latitudes, and are proper, the Suns Declination being either Northerly, or Southerly.
ref: 1669, John Seller, Practical Navigation: or, An Introduction to That Whole Art. […], London: […] J. Darby, […] sold by the Author […] and by John Wingfield, […], page 188:
text: SHEWETH unto her Lortſhip, her Oratrix, Magna Pritain (a poor Oman formerly fery well known to her Lortſhip’s Preteceſſors, but of what Place can’t particularly write herſelf, hafing neither Ouſe, Home, nor Hapitation at preſent, unleſs her Lortſhip determines this Cauſe in her Favour, and wou’t have pray’d to pe admittet a Pauper, put that her ſait Cauſe requires Diſpatch (which her fery coot Attorney has atvic’d her is not practiſeable in that Caſe)
ref: 1742, a Welch Attorney, “To her Worshippful and fery coot Lort Chancellor of Crete Pritain”, in A Draught of a Bill of Complaint in the High Court of C⁠-⁠-⁠-⁠nc⁠-⁠-⁠ry, by Mrs. Magna Britannia, Complain^(t.) against Robert de Houghton, and Others, Defendants, […], London: […] J. Huggonson, […], page 3:
text: Not to shoot into the vague, we specify the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry’s estates in that quarter of Scotland; the estates of the Radical M.P. for that quarter. Large farms tilled by hinds who neither can nor do procure for themselves any milk, are easy to be met with on both those estates. It is a fact possible everywhere, practiseable everywhere.
ref: 1839, Thomas Carlyle, “[Carlyle’s Picture of Husbandry in Annandale]”, in Charles Richard Sanders, Kenneth J[oshua] Fielding, Clyde de L[oache] Ryals, Ian Campbell, Aileen Christianson, Hilary J. Smith, editors, The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Duke-Edinburgh edition, volume 11 (1839), Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, footnote 2, page 204:
glosses: Rare form of practicable.