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▪ I. † importable, a.1 Obs.
Also 5–6 inp-.
[a. F. importable (1328 in Godef.) = It. importabile (Florio), ad. L. importābil-is unbearable, insupportable, f. im- (im-2) + portābilis bearable, portable.]
That cannot be carried or borne; rarely lit. too heavy to be carried; usually fig. too grievous or painful to be borne, unbearable, unendurable.
c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 524 (612) His peynes were importable. c1400Rom. Rose 6902 They wolde binde on folk alwey..Burdens that ben importable. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 26 With the ymportible payne of turment, he cried then pitously. 1475Nottingham Rec. II. 388 Many grete and importable charges and expensis. a1533Ld. Berners Huon cxlv. 544 In all my lyfe I haue had but sorow, and heuynes, and dolours inportables. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1412/2 Vnder the importable yoke of the detestable inquisition of Spaine. 1632Sanderson Serm. (1681) I. 291 We lay upon our own shoulders..heavy and importable burdens. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) III. 662 The poorer sort could not bear the importable scafferie intended.
Hence † imˈportableness, the quality of being insupportable; unbearableness. † imˈportably adv., unbearably, intolerably.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 356 It shalle us greeve Importably. 1559Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 99 That we be not hereafter importably charged with the setting forth of men of war. 1677Hale Contempl. ii. 199 Though the Yoke be the same, yet it finds no such severity and importableness in it.
▪ II. importable, a.2|ɪmˈpɔətəb(ə)l|
[f. import v. + -able.]
a. Capable of being brought in or introduced.
b. That may be imported from abroad.
1533More Debell. Salem xv. A ij b, Than is not the losse and the damage vnto the spyrytualtye alone, but harme is importable vnto the whole realme. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. vii. xcv. 441 It is importable only under oath of being for private use. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 229 Rum is only importable in Casks of not less than 60 gallons. 1814Coleridge in Smiles J. Murray (1891) I. 297 An attempt to import whatever is importable of either or of both into our own language. |