impetrable

English

Etymology

From Latin impetrabilis. Compare French impétrable. See impetrate.

Adjective

impetrable (comparative more impetrable, superlative most impetrable)

1. (obsolete) Capable of being obtained or influenced by petition.
   • 1622, A Proclamation Made and Proclaimed in Holland, ... by the ... Generall States of the United Netherland Provinces, Prohibiting All Jesuits, Priests, Monkes, Friers, and Other Spirituall Persons of the Romish Religion, to Come Into the United Provinces, Or to Stay Therein ..., page 8:

     [These people losing their offices] shall be impetrable by others. And that no man shall or may pretend ignorance herein, we desire & request, […]

   • 1634, Thomas Hobbes, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre:

     Wee must not therefore give our Confederates hope of pardon, either impetrable by words, or purchaseable by money

References

• “impetrable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• permitable