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imposable, a. rare.|ɪmˈpəʊzəb(ə)l|
[f. impose v. + -able.]
1. That may be imposed or laid on.
a1660Hammond (J.), They were not simply imposeable on any particular man, farther than he was a member of some church.
2. Capable of being imposed upon or cheated; gullible, dupable.
a1734North Exam. ii. iv. (1740) 306 Much more monstrous is it to imagine readers so imposable upon to credit it upon any one's bare Relation. ― Lives (1826) I. 397 If he had been..a weak imposable wretch they had liked him much better.
Hence imˈposableness, ‘the state or quality of being imposable’.
1847in Craig. |