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assailable

adj
/əˈseɪləbl̩/

Etymology

From assail + -able.

  1. derived from ad — “at, towards”
  2. derived from assalio
  3. derived from assalir
  4. inherited from assailen
  5. suffixed as assailable — “assail + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be assailed or attacked.

    • There’s comfort yet; they [Banquo and Fleance] are assailable; / Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown / His cloister’d flight […] there shall be done / A deed of dreadful note.
    • 1791, Hannah Brand, Huniades, or, The siege of Belgrave, Act IV, Scene 3, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, 1798, p. 82, Plant the ordnance ’gainst the postern, / North of the Eastern tower; for there I deem / The wall is most assailable.
    • Indeed, he lived among a generation of sinners, whose consciences were not assailable by smooth circumlocutions, and whose vices required the scourge and the hot iron.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA