occasionable
English
Etymology
occasion + -able
Adjective
occasionable (not comparable)
- Capable of being occasioned or caused.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Barrow to this entry?)
- (archaic) occasional
- Washington Irving
- Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasionable grunt, as he shovelled a mighty spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth […]
- Washington Irving
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 occasionable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)