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† ˈgrievable, a. Obs.
[a. OF. grevable, f. grever to grieve.]
Causing grief or pain; distressing, hurtful, injurious.
1390Gower Conf. II. 11 There is a vice full grevable To him, which is therof coulpable. c1440Ashby Dict. Phil. (E.E.T.S.) 92/1089 It is of goode and noble discrecion..That can suffer aduer[si]tise greueable. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 426 b/2 The waye is to the right greueable by cause that thou knowest not the contreye. c1500Melusine xxiv. 192 Thinke you not that the thinge which is acustomed of long tyme be lesse greuable than that thing which is newly lerned? |