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Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme. Addison.

The quality or state of being preferable.

Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.

Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect. To obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Sam. xv. 22. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Ps. cxviii. 9.

The best part; that which is preferable. The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound. Milton. To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.

Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.

be poor and true.] C. Mundi (Trans. ). Him had been lever to be syke. [To him it had been preferable to be sick.] Fabian. For him was lever have at his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. Chaucer.

Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).

ce. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.

retired. I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable. [Obs.] See Lief, adv., and Had as lief, under Had. Full lief me were this counsel for to hide. Chaucer. Death me liefer were than such despite. Spenser.

tyle; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

Natural scale (Mus.), a scale which is written without flats or sharps. Model would be a preferable term, as less likely to mislead, the so-called artificial scales (scales represented by the use of flats and sharps) being equally natural with the so-called natural scale -- Natural science, natural history, in its bro…

igurative sense, of violation of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct and preferable term." Abbott.

The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness. J. S. Mill.

The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]

beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography.