spirable

English

Etymology

Latin spirabilis.

Adjective

spirable (comparative more spirable, superlative most spirable)

  1. (obsolete) Capable of being breathed; respirable.
    spirable matter
    • 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe‎[1]:
      ...but the spirable odor & pestilent steame ascending from it, put him out of his bias of congruity...

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