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† competible, a. Obs.
Also 7 -able.
[app. f. L. compet-ĕre to be suitable or fit, to correspond (see competent), or f. its F. repr. compét-er in same sense + -ible. (Godefroy has one example of a F. competable = ‘competent’ of 1492.)]
1. Appropriate, suitable, properly applicable, befitting; competent.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 167 The similitude is in their spotted skins, which are not competible in Goats, but in Roes. 1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. ii. 35 How could they..receive any competible share in a client's enforced bounty. 1640― Boulster Lect. 8 Truth is, to a competible eye, nothing more intimately moving than beauty.
b. Const. to.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 152 The coate-armor of the Auncestor is competible to all his children. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. 20 These..are properties not at all competible to body or matter. 1687G. Towerson Baptism 15 Circumcision was not competible to those of the Female Sex.
c. Const. with. Here there is sometimes confusion with compatible.
1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 494 It is a divine..Principality..nor is this competible with any creature. 1650Heylyn in Vernon Life Heylyn (1682) 249 The Commission..is thought to be neither competable nor consistent with it [viz., a Convocation]. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xviii. §6. 350 The miracles which were onely competible with Christ. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. ii. 316 Let us now examine, whether the Doctrine of Indifference be competible with any of these Religions.
2. Legally competent.
c1638–58Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 232, I could not hold these persons my competible accusers. |