释义 |
activeable perhaps = ‘excitable,’ f. stem of activ-ate (cf. separate, separable): but probably to be read as two words active able. In Hazlitt's Dodsley spelt activable.
1602Return fr. Parn. iv. 5 (Arb.) 62 To thinke so many actiueable wits, That might contend with proudest birds of Po, Sits now immur'd within their priuate cells. |