perspirable
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From perspire + -able. Compare French perspirable.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]perspirable (comparative more perspirable, superlative most perspirable)
- Capable of being perspired.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- electrics will not commonly attract, except they grow hot, or become perspirable
- Emitting perspiration; perspiring.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- children likewise are not hairy , for that their skins are more perspirable
References
[edit]- “perspirable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.