Meanings
comparative more impetrable · superlative most impetrable
- obsoleteCapable of being obtained or influenced by petition.
Hovv impetrable hee vvas in mollyfying the adamantineſt tiranny of mankinde, […]
1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 212 more examples
[These people losing their offices] shall be impetrable by others. And that no man shall or may pretend ignorance herein, we desire & request, […]
1622, A Proclamation Made and Proclaimed in Holland, ... by the ... Generall States of the United Netherland Provinces, Prohibiting All Jesuits, Priests, Monkes, Friers, and Other Spirituall Persons of the Romish Religion, to Come Into the United Provinces, Or to Stay Therein ..., page 8Wee must not therefore give our Confederates hope of pardon, either impetrable by words, or purchaseable by money
1629, Thucydides, “(please specify the page)”, in Thomas Hobbes, transl., Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre […], London: […] Hen[ry] Seile, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinimpetrabilis
- Englishimpetrable
From Latin impetrabilis. Compare French impétrable. See impetrate.
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impetrable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impetrable
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