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refusable, a. Now rare.|rɪˈfjuːzəb(ə)l|
[f. refuse v.1 + -able, or ad. obs. F. refusable.]
1. That may be rejected or refused (when offered).
1570Levins Manip. 4/8 Refusable, recusabilis. 1611Cotgr., Rejectable, reiectable, refusable. 1659H. Thorndike Wks. (1846) II. 512 No act of theirs..is refusable by the Church. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 138 Since those Sufferings were absolutely refusable as not being the very same which the Law demanded.
†b. Deserving of rejection. Obs.
1658A. Fox tr. Würtz' Surg. iii. xvii. 271 If a patient hath bled nere so much, they will phlebotomize him further, which is an ill and refusable way. 1666Bp. S. Parker Free Censure (1667) 143 The Sensation of..displeasing Objects, which makes their Existence full of nothing but Sadness and Misery, and utterly refusable.
2. That may be refused (when asked for).
1652Warren Unbelievers (1654) 17 Payment was refusable. 1668Marvell Corr. Wks. 1875 II. 258 My Lord..did wish [etc.]... Which, all circumstances considered, seeming not refusable, my Lord Bellasis writ this letter. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng., Catech. Exam. 404 An indulgence refusable, and not to be granted but upon conditions. |