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reˈvengeable, a. ? Obs.
[f. revenge v.]
†1. Revengeful. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis xi. xi. 126 Out of my cais That ilke revengeabill arow thou owt rais. 1552Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 212 [They] have been backbiters and slanderers, wrathful and revengeable, and so continue, without amendment. 1689Sherlock Death iii. §7 (1731) 160 The Laws..allow Scope enough to satisfy the most revengeable Man.
2. Worthy or capable of being revenged.
1592Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxvii. (1602) 185 Through blinde bace Loue induring wrong reuengeable in season. |