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feelable, a.|ˈfiːləb(ə)l| [f. feel v. + -able.] That may or can be felt. †a. Sensible, perceptible, manifest (obs.). b. nonce-use. That is matter of emotion or sensibility.
c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxviii, By dyuers syknes or by felable tourment of the fende. a1500Orol. Sap. in Anglia X. 358 Vndir a felable ensaumple I schalle ȝ eue the þe misterie of this doctrine. 1530Tindale Answ. More iv. xii, He uttereth his feelable blindness. 1570in Levins Manip. 114. 1883 Huxley in Nature XXVII. 397 All things feelable, all things which stir our emotions, come under the term of art. Hence ˈfeelably adv., in a feelable manner; perceptibly, manifestly (obs.).
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints Thomas 392 By þre ensampile schawit he Felably quhow ma þis be. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xx, Vntyll a soule can feleably noughte hymself. |