departable

English

Etymology

Related to part.

Adjective

departable (comparative more departable, superlative most departable)

1. (obsolete) divisible
   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, The Case of the Post-Nati of Scotland:

     the kingdom shall go to the issue female; that it shall not be departable among daughters

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “departable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• preablated