Meanings
comparative more battable · superlative most battable
- obsoleteCapable of cultivation; fertile; productive.
Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Origin
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