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perspirable, a. (n.)|pəˈspaɪərəb(ə)l|
[f. perspire v. + -able. Cf. F. perspirable (in Paré 1561).]
1. Capable of perspiring; allowing the passage of perspiration; liable to perspire.
† perspirable veins, an old name of the arteries, as the supposed channels of the ‘vital spirits’.
1604F. Herring Mod. Defence A iv b, Womens bodies being more soft, tender, and perspirable. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 158 The Bloud, as it..passes to and fro, through the perspirable Veins. 1690Boyle Chr. Virtuoso i. 63 Who would believe that the Poyson..should be able..to continue in the warm and still perspirable Body of the bitten person? 1744tr. Boerhaave's Inst. III. 309 The whole Surface of the human Body..is perspirable. 1860–1F. Nightingale Nursing 65 The skin absorbs the water and becomes softer and more perspirable.
†b. Capable of breathing forth or emitting an effluvium. Obs. rare.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iv. 79 For Electricks will not commonly attract, except they grow hot or become perspirable. 1656Blount Glossogr., Perspirable,..that may, or is able to breathe through.
c. Of, pertaining to, or attended with perspiration; perspirable point, point of perspiration.
1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 496 To bring down the animal heat to the perspirable point. 1822Examiner 380/2 Her fan, which..he is essaying to pick up by a puffing and perspirable exertion.
†2. Liable to be blown through; exposed to air or the wind, airy. Obs.
c1624Chapman Homer's Epigr. x, [Ida] Where every tree Beares up in aire such perspirable heights. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 57 Joyning this perspirable region with the celestial and intelligible. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 197 Let the Doors and Windows be stopp'd with Clay, that the House be not perspirable with Wind or Air.
3. a. Capable of being thrown off in perspiration (insensible or sensible). †b. Capable of being exhaled or emitted in vapour (obs.). †c. Allowing of the passage of perspiration (obs.).
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxi. 270 The Amnios is a generall investment, containing the sudorous or thin serosity perspirable through the skin. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide i. i. (1738) 5 Porous for the passage of Sweat, or other perspirable Matter. 1744Berkeley Siris §88 Perspirable humours not discharged will stagnate and putrefy. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 9 Speculations concerning the perspirable Fluids of Human Bodies. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 417 A copious discharge of perspirable matter.
B. as n. in pl. Perspirable matters.
1797J. Downing Disord. Horned Cattle 30 A regular discharge, or secretion of perspirables.
Hence perspiraˈbility, capability of perspiring; liability to perspire.
1744Mitchell in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 145 On account of the Perspirability of their Bodies. 1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 529 A salutary relaxation and perspirability of the skin. |