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† lachrymable, lacrymable, a. Obs.
[ad. L. lacrimābilis, f. lacrimā-re to shed tears.]
1. Meet for tears or weeping; lamentable.
1490Caxton Eneydos vii. 32 To make hir to ouerthrowe & to brynge hir in-to exyle lacrymable. 1527St. Papers Hen. VIII I. 228 The hevy and lacrymable successe of Rome. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 359 To vthers lufe is richt Lacrymabill. 15942nd Rep. Dr. Faustus in Thoms E.E. Prose Rom. (1858) III. 373 The most lachrimable sight. 1648J. Quarles Fons Lachrym. A 7 Never were..Lamentations more requisite than in these Lachrymable Times.
2. Expressive of mourning; tearful.
1609J. Davies (Heref.) Holy Roode (Grosart) 28/1 In Grones, and Sighes, and Lachrimable Noise. 1635Heywood Hierarchie iii. (1655) 158 Musicke can shew us which are the lacrymable notes. |