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Definition of Capabler
1. capable [adj] - See also: capable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capabler
Literary usage of Capabler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1900)
"Questions of the Inner Ego by some stylish woman writ; Analytic introspection of
capacities is It. Morbider than Henry James's, capabler than Meredith's, ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... arming forth, though it be but a catch or pink no capabler than a rundlet or
washing-bowl, to imp the wing? of hi convoy. ..."
3. The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Fletcher Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1875)
"Besides, few have judgment to know of what a subject is capabler and expect to
see the same power displayed, whether an oak is to be uprooted, ..."
4. Autumn (1921)
"Mrs. Wicket's a capable woman in things like that. capabler than Miss Beal.
There was no one else ever made me so comfortable. I have to say that about her; ..."
5. The Law's Disposal of a Person's Estate who Dies Without Will Or Testament by Peter Lovelass, Niel Gow (1823)
"... he is not capable of inheriting; yet if he hath human shape, though deformed
in body, he is capabler. The time when the issue was born is immaterial, ..."
6. Highways and Byways in East Anglia by William Alfred Dutt (1901)
"... and not the least nook or crevice of them but is parturient of the like
super-officiousness, arming forth, though it be but a catch or pink, no capabler ..."
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