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comparable, a.|ˈkɒmpərəb(ə)l|
[a. F. comparable, ad. L. comparābil-is, f. comparā-re to compare: see -ble.]
1. Able to be compared, capable of comparison (with).
1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle ii. lviii. (1859) 56 Bytwene the and me this maner of lykenes is not comparable. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 495 b, Many..in all respectes comparable with you. 1636Healey Theophrastus, To Rdr., The French is..yet in no degree comparable with the learned languages. 1870Bowen Logic iv. 64 The Marks..by means of which it is comparable..with other things. 1881Lockyer in Nature No. 614. 324 In this way we insure a considerable number of absolutely comparable observations.
2. Worthy of comparison; proper, or fit to be compared; to be compared (to).
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 388/1 None comparable to hyr in wytte and wysdom. c1510More Picus Wks. 27 Thou shalt no pleasure comparable finde To thinwarde gladnes of a vertuous minde. 1667H. More Disc. Faith (1713) 584 No Tradition can be of any comparable Authority to this. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. xxxviii. 154 Some other mosques..not comparable in point of magnificence to this. 1856P. E. Dove Logic Chr. Faith, v. i. 301 This Holy Being has no comparable antagonist.
Hence ˈcomparableness.
1731in Bailey; whence in mod. Dicts. |