“bowable”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bowable

释义

† ˈbowable, a. Obs.
[f. bow v.¹ + -able.]
1. That may be bowed or bent; flexible, pliable.
1483Cath. Angl. 38 Bowabylle, vbi pliabylle.1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) i. 76 It is flexible and bowable to any thing a man can desire.1611Cotgr., Ployable, pliable, bowable, bendable.
2. fig. Complaisant.
c1449Pecock Repr. 200 Make the patroun (that is to seie Crist) to be to us inclineable or boweable or redi to heere us.1623J. Wodroephe Marrow Fr. Tongue 323 (L.) If she be a virgin, she is pliable or bowable.
Hence ˈbowableness.
c1475Found. St. Barthol. Ch. i. xxvii. (1886) 63 The synowys were dryed up & alweys lackid bowablenesse.

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