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pleasable, a. Now rare.|ˈpliːzəb(ə)l|
Also 4 plesable, 6 pleasible.
[ME. plesable, a. OF. pleisable (c 1185 in Godefroy), plaisable agreeable, f. plaisir (= plaire) to please; see please and -able.]
1. Capable of being pleased; placable, mild.
1382Wyclif Gen. xliii. 14 And my God Almyȝti make hym plesable to ȝow [Vulg. Deus..faciat vobis eum placabilem]. 1552Northumberland in Tytler Edw. VI (1839) II. 148, I love not to have to do with men which be neither grateful nor pleasable. 1570Levins Manip. 2/23 Pleasable, placabilis, e. 1839Lady Granville Lett. 21 June, As good-humoured and pleasable as it is possible to be.
†2. Acceptable, pleasing, agreeable. Obs.
1382Wyclif Isa. lx. 7 Thei shul ben offrid vpon my plesable [1388 acceptable] auter. Ibid. lxi. 2, I shulde..prechen a ȝer plesable to the Lord [Vulg. Annum placabilem Domino]. 1554Knox Godly Let. A iij b, I haue ben compelled to speake in your presens..such thinges as were not pleasable to the eares of men.
Hence ˈpleasableness, placability.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices i. (1558) 39 There is nothing more seemely for a great..man than pleasablenes and mercy. |