comptible
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Adjective[edit]
comptible (comparative more comptible, superlative most comptible)
- (obsolete) accountable; responsible
- 1671, James Dalrymple, “The Countess of Bramford and the Lady Forrester, contra Earl of Callendar, eodem die”, in The decisions of the Lords of Council & Session:
- The Act of Indemnity, by which no Intrometters with Publick Money are comptible for Publick Money.
- (obsolete) sensitive
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
- I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage.
References[edit]
“comptible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.