temptable
adjEtymology From Middle English temptable, probably from Old French temptable, variant of tentable; compare Latin tentābilis; equivalent to tempt + -able.
1
Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
- As concerning the Infamous and Diabolical Magick, he that would know whether or no a Philoſopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it, […]1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC, page 268:
- Derived terms
- temptableness, untemptable