1849 H. D. Thoreau 81 Let not the apprehension..discourage the cheerful labors of the able-souled man.
1868 ‘G. Hamilton’ 64 It is only adding cruelty to cruelty to require of them what can be done only by able-bodied souls and able-souled bodies.
1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) Pref., in 151 Every able-bodied and able-minded and able-souled person.