Meanings
adjectivedeleble (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of delible.
For pens, ſo uſefull for Scholars to note the remarkables they read, with an impreſſion eaſily deleble without prejudice to the book.
a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Cumberland”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 215
Origin
- Latindēlēbilis
- Englishdeleble
Latin dēlēbilis.
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