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doubtable, a.|ˈdaʊtəb(ə)l|
Forms: see doubt n.1
[ME. doutable, a. obs. F. doutable causing fear, terrible, having fear, doubtful (Godef.), ad. L. dubitābil-is, after douter to doubt: see -able.]
1. That may be doubted; doubtful, uncertain, questionable, dubitable.
c1400Rom. Rose 5413 If thee thynke it is doutable, It is thurgh argument provable. c1400Mandeville (1839) xvi. 172 To have Juggement of doutable Causes. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 388 b/1 Answer not by doubtable wordes. 1627Feltham Resolves ii. (1628) 153 'Tis not doutable, but that the mind is working, in the dullest depth of sleep. 1886W. Knight Hume 105 Descartes virtually said, exhaust the sphere of the doubtable.
†2. To be dreaded; redoubtable, dread. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Bochas i. xiv. (1554) 29 b, The mountain, by force he hath assured, Which for brigantes afore was ful doubtable. 1475Bk. Noblesse (1860) 51 Cartage, the victorioux cite of gret renomme, most doubtable. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 345 She hathe frendes ryghte hye and doubtable. |