painable

adj

painable

adj

Etymology From pain + -able. Compare French pénible.

1

Obsolete Painful.

  • The manacles of Astyages were not […] the less weighty and paynable for being composed of gold or silver.1649, John Evelyn, Of Liberty and Servitude:

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