| 单词 |
companiable |
| 释义 |
† comˈpaniable, a. Obs. In 4 cumpanyable. [an OF. cum-, compaignable, -agnable, with ny for gn mouillé, which became simple n in the form companable.] Sociable, friendly, companionable.
c1326Coer de L. 3805 Phelyp to hym was cumpanyable. c1440Promp. Parv. 109/1 Companyable, or felawble, or felawly, socialis. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits x. (1616) 128 That he might be companiable and ciuile. 1630Sanderson Serm. II. 276 A man, who whilst he was master of his reason was quiet and companiable. 1793J. Williams Earl of Barrymore 23 His companiable points had singular seduction. 1822Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. XI. 12 Close behind him plashed and murmured the companiable stream. Hence † comˈpaniableness.
1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xv. (1634) 189 His retirednesse was for prayer; his companiablenesse [ed. 1796 companableness] was for preaching. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vii. (1843) 433/1 In all such encounters he [Falkland] had about him a strange cheerfulness and companiableness. |

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