compassable
English
Etymology
compass + -able
Adjective
compassable (comparative more compassable, superlative most compassable)
- Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
- February 11 1780, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons
- We want many things compassable only by the help of other beings like ourselves. They want things compassable within our Help.
- February 11 1780, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons
References
compassable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913