leisurableadj.

a1540 [implied in: R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 358/2 If thou wilt leasurably lysten and beholde to the ende of the tragedye. (at leisurably adv.)].

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 479 Chosing rather to broyle him with leasurable tormentes..then to kill him at once.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. (1636) iv. ii. 264 His [Pompey's] over-great power..moved envy among the leisurable [L. otiosos] Citizens.

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) xiii. 81 I shall humbly reserve [this] to a more leasurable inquiry.

1905 ‘Q’ Shining Ferry i. 9 Old Nicky Vro, the ferryman, had pulled the same leisurable stroke for forty years now, and was not to be hurried.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 39 You must doe it by such leasurable tymes, that nature hauing no more then shee is able to digest, may..come to bee orderly satisfied.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) Pref. This I confesse..I had at leisurable hours composed. View more context for this quotation

1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 261 A leisurable period of the year.

1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean (ed. 2) I. ii. ix. 149 Such a theory, at more leisurable moments, would, of course, have its precepts to propound.