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ˈnourishable, a.
[f. prec. + -able. Cf. OF. norrissable (Godef.).]
†1. Capable of affording nourishment; nutritive, nutritious. (Common in 17th c.) Obs.
1496Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 2 And yf he woll be dyetyd mesurably..he must..ete nourishable [a 1450 norysching] meetes and dyffyable also. 1565Sparke Hawkins Voy. (Hakluyt Soc.) 57 It maketh also good beuerage sodden in water, and nourishable. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 26 Then is the soile but thin, And fitter yeeld it is for beasts and nourishable vines. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 13 Let the food be nourishable, hungry Elias stands not vpon it, whether an Angel or a rauen serue it. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 458 The fruits of the Earth were much more nourishable and healthful before the Flood than afterwards. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 178 The Fall of great Rains may wash down Insects and other nourishable Matter into it.
2. Capable of being nourished; susceptive of nourishment.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 41 From whense agayne it is attracted into all partes nourysshable of the infant. 1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Wars Flanders 87 He had no money to maintain it [his army], nor was it any longer nourishable by rapine. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 219 There are as many stomacks, as there are members nourishable. 1701Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. v. 28 Its more ready adhesion to all the nourishable Parts. 1876G. Meredith Lett. (1912) I. 269 The dear heart of him so frankly nourishable by flattery that [etc.]. |