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leisurable, a.|ˈlɛʒ(jʊ)ərəb(ə)l|
[f. leisure n. + -able; perh. on the supposed analogy of comfortable, honourable: cf. pleasurable.]
1. Proceeding or acting without haste; leisurely, deliberate.
[a1540implied in leisurably.] 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 479 Chosing rather to broyle him with leasurable tormentes..then to kill him at once. 1618Bolton Florus iv. ii. (1636) 264 His [Pompey's] over-great power..moved envy among the leisurable [L. otiosos] Citizens. a1691Boyle Hist. Air xiii. (1692) 81, I shall humbly reserve [this] to a more leasurable inquiry.
2. Not requiring haste; leisure (time). rare.
1607Markham Caval. v. (1617) 40 You must doe it by such leasurable times, that nature hauing no more then she is able to digest, may..come to be orderly satisfied. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. Pref., This I confesse..I had at leisurable hours composed. 1848Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 261 A leisurable period of the year. 1885Pater Marius the Epic. ii. ix. (ed. 2) I. 149 Such a theory, at more leisurable moments, would, of course, have its precepts to propound. |