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† companable, a. Obs.
Forms: 4 companabile, -pynabil, -pyn-, -peyn-, -paign-, 4–5 -payn-, 4–6 -pin-, 4–7 -pen-, 5 -paygnable, -penabyll, -penabull, 6 cumpynable, -abul, coumpinable, 4–7 companable.
[a. OF. cum-, compagnable, -aignable, f. compagnier to company: see -ble. Cf. the variant companiable.]
Sociable, friendly, companionable.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxvii. 56 Companabile til mannys kynde. c1386Chaucer Shipman's T. 4 Companable, and reuerent was sche. 1386Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 327 Compynable among hem self [inter se sociales]. c1450Horn of K. Arthur 110 in Child Ballads (1861) I. 21 Ther wyves hath ben merchandabull, And of ther ware compenabull. 1513More Edw. V, in Stow Annals (1592) 717 Hee [Richard III] was..outwardly coumpinable where he inwardly hated. 1538Starkey England i. i. (1871) 13 Lyuyng togydder in a cumpynabul lyfe. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass xv. (1664) 155 His gracious, and compenable, and vertuous mind. 1611Cotgr., Accompagnable, companable, sociable.
Hence † companableness, † companably adv.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 169 His wordes [full] of hearty companablenesse. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 333/4 To lyue..compaynably, contynently and humbly. |