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marriable, a. Now rare.|ˈmærɪəb(ə)l| Also 5–6 mari-, maryable, 6 marryable. [a. OF. mariable, f. mari-er to marry.] That may be married; in early use = marriageable.
c1440Promp. Parv. 326/1 Maryable,..nubilis. 1543Grafton Contin. Harding 540 The lorde Harbarte had a syster maryable. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 154 Until that Sela came of marriable years. 1569Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 352 The parties marriable must be so allowed by two justices of the peace or by the Ordinary. 1587Holinshed Chron. III. 38/1 The kings daughter..being now viripotent or mariable. 1820Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 150 The Reformed Church of England with its marriable and married clergy. |