dependible

English

Etymology

depend +‎ -ible

Adjective

dependible (comparative more dependible, superlative most dependible)

1. Archaic spelling of dependable.
   • 1862, William Jackson Hooker, Species Filicum: Scolopendrium, page 212:

     […] though I believe the most dependible marks to be derived from the long-attenuated base of the frond, owing to the gradual dwarfing of the lower pinnæ; […]

   • 1875, Charles Greville, The Greville Memoirs, page 215:

     […] still there is scarcely a hope of their gaining enough to enable Peel to carry on the Government with such constant and dependible majorities as can alone render it efficacious and secure.

   • 1883, Report on the Administration of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Penal Settlements of Port Blair and the Nicobars, for the Year 1882–1883, page 69:

     I have found him during the whole of my own residence here (since 1872) the most steady and sober of men, always at his work, and a thoroughly dependible man in every way.

   • 1926, Musical Merchandise Combined for the Duration [with] The Music Trade Review, page 33:

     Furthermore, Rexcraft, Inc., is starting 1927, with a complete net work of dependible jobbers from Coast to Coast.

   • 1966, Fleishour V. United States of America, page 39:

     He is average in work, dependible in attitude, is always in the middle of all the kiddish pranks the other inmate's^[sic] want to play.