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succourable, a.|ˈsʌkərəb(ə)l|
[a. OF. so-, sucurable, etc., chiefly active, rarely passive (mod.F. secourable), f. secourir to succour: see -able. Cf. It. soccorrevole.]
1. Affording succour, helpful. Obs. exc. arch.
c1400Ragman Roll 175 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 76 Releuer to the pore, and socourabill Ben ye. c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 128 Oure lady marie..softned hire dere sons ire with hire sucurable prayere. c1477Caxton Jason 50 b, I think well that fortune hath ben socourable to the noble lady. 1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 153 Good friendes and succorable. 1615Cleaver Explan. Prov. 434 The goodnes of God which is very succourable. 1619Times Store-House 780/2 Perceiuing him [sc. a physician] not so succourable, as hee desireth or would haue. 1620Thomas Lat. Dict., Auxiliaris..succourable. c1765T. Flloyd Tartarian T. (1785) 61/2 Succourable Fairy,..furnish me..with means. 1880Browning Dram. Idylls, Pan & Luna 34 What help? When, lo, A succourable cloud with sleep lay dense.
2. Capable of being helped or relieved. rare.
1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Wars Flanders 77 But the Town being munited, and at all times succorable, and he having but a few men with him, he could not doe it. |