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† reˈsemblable, a. Obs.
[a. OF. resemblable (14th c.): see resemble v. and -able.]
Capable of being compared or likened; comparable, similar (to some person or thing); like.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 985 These arowis..Were alle fyve on oon maneere, And alle were they resemblable. 1390Gower Conf. I. 35 For man of Soule resonable Is to an Angel resemblable. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 2137 They be nat resemblable To my beaute nor comparable. 1429Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 143 That thow mayst be resemblable founde,..Liche themperour worthy Sygesmounde. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 201 He should haue the fayre Florence, to whome the ymage was resemblable. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 253 Thales Milesius was of opinion that the Earth floated and was aptly resemblable to a ship swimming in the Water. |