consortable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]consortable (comparative more consortable, superlative most consortable)
- (obsolete) Suitable for consorting or associating with, such as for companionship.
- c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 23:
- [F]rom a younger brothers mean eſtate, he roſe to the higheſt degree vvherof a Subject vvas capable either in Title or Truſt. Therin I muſt confeſſe much more conſortable to Charls Brandon under Henry the Eight, vvho vvas equall to him in both.
Further reading
[edit]- “consortable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.