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imitable, a.|ˈɪmɪtəb(ə)l|
[a. F. imitable (16th c.), ad. L. imitābilis, f. imitārī to imitate: see -able.]
1. Capable of being imitated.
1598Florio, Imitabile, imitable, that may be imitated. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Praise Pindar i, Pindar is imitable by none. 1711Steele Spect. No. 133 ⁋1 We secretly believe the Part of the dying Person imitable by ourselves. 1880L. Stephen Pope viii. 198 All poets who have any marked style are more or less imitable.
†2. Deserving of imitation. Obs.
1550Nicolls Thucyd. 6 That whiche shalbe founden to be therein Imitable and good to followe. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §12 The worst of times afford imitable examples of virtue. 1742Richardson Pamela IV. 82 Such advantageous Lights, as shall..make the Vice that ought to be censured, imitable. 1781R. Twining in Twining Fam. Papers (1887) 16 Wishing that painters and sculptors would confine their labours to imitable subjects.
Hence ˈimitableness, imitable quality.
1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 493 The reason of this imitablenesse is the same. 1774A. Gib Pres. Truth I. 332 The perpetual obligation and imitableness of the precepts and examples. |