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† spirable, a. Obs.
[ad. L. spīrābilis, f. spīrāre spire v.2 So It. spirabile Sp. espirable.]
1. Connected with breathing; having the power of breathing; respiratory.
1562W. Bullein Bulwarke, Bk. Simples 25 It also is good..for shorte windes in the spirable partes. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 215 It [death] is an abolishment and destruction of life and nature spirable. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 311 We are followed by..continued Fevers, as well as those that accompany Catarrhs, from the Intemperament of the Spirable Parts.
2. Capable of being breathed; respirable.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 56 The spirable odor & pestilent steame ascending from it, put him out of his bias of congruity. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xii. xiii. (1620) 723 The visible light, the spirable ayre, the potable water. 1715tr. Cicero's Tusculan Disp. i. 20 That fortuitous jumbling together of light and round atoms, which Democritus, however, maintains to be warm and spirable. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Platonism, The Starry Heaven, which he [Plato] teaches is not adamantine or solid, but liquid and spirable. |