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Definition of Patible
1. a. Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.
Definition of Patible
1. Adjective. Able to suffer; passible ¹
2. Adjective. Capable of being suffered; tolerable, endurable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patible
1. capable of suffering [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patible
Literary usage of Patible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Discourse on the Studies of the University by Adam Sedgwick (1835)
"patible with our nature; then is there something within us, which, however obscured
or ill-informed, points to a higher destiny: and in asking for motives, ..."
2. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"patible with his former history and professions. His phase of the Christian
character has always been that of sufferance. He is the gentle Melancthon, ..."
3. The Errors of Prohibition: An Argument Delivered in the Representatives by John Albion Andrew (1867)
"... patible with health, it needs no elaborate facts to establish ; but if we take
the customary life of those constituting the masses of our inhabitants of ..."
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