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Same as Tetrahedrite.

n of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.

The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden.

Capable of being pawned.

Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition. [R.] Pollok.

Permanent; durable. [Obs.] Lydgate.

ell-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall.

Capable of poisoning; poisonous. [Obs.] "Poisonable heresies." Tooker.

Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.

Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. [R.] Cotgrave.

proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining. Fitzed. Hall.

Proportionally. Locke.

The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.

ng questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. [R.] Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak.

The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.

In a questionable manner.

Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.

Quality of being reasonable.

In a reasonable manner.