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despisable, a.|dɪˈspaɪzəb(ə)l|
[In ME. despiˈsable, a. OF. despiç-, despisable, f. stem despis- of despire to despise.]
1. To be despised or treated with contempt; contemptible, despicable. Now rare.
a1340Hampole Psalter xlviii. 19 Þat is a despisabile shrift þat ese makis. Ibid. ciii. 24 Despisabiler fendes. 1382Wyclif 1 Cor. i. 28 God chees the vnnoble thingis and dispisable thingis of the world. 1483Caxton Gold Leg. 357/1 He was of vyle habyte and despysable of chere. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §4. 293 Rather despiseable then commendable. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2582/3 Ill Armed, and in a very despisable Condition. 1782F. Burney Cecilia IV. 269 Business is no such despiseable thing. 1873J. M. Bailey Life in Danbury 6 Brought up..to look upon a liar as the most despisable of earth's creatures.
†2. Contemptuous. = despicable 2. Obs.
1644Quarles Barnabas & B. 208, I..am now rejected by the despiseable name of a widow. |