▪ I. † ˈpatible, n. Obs.
[ad. L. patibulum a fork-shaped yoke placed on the necks of criminals, a fork-shaped gibbet, etc., f. patē-re to lie open + -bulum, forming names of instruments or utensils.]
A gibbet, a cross; the horizontal bar of a cross.
| 1428–9 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (E.E.T.S.) 70 Also payd for a patyble to serle..Also payd for iiij Ewangelistes, makyng & keruyng. c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4127 The patible of the crosse for sheeld and targe hadde hee. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 74 On the aultare was a deske or halpace, whereon stoode a patible of the Crucifix of fine golde. 1745 F. Blomefield Norfolk II. 638 The Patible over the Perke [Rood-loft]. |
| attrib. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry ii. vii. (1660) 79 This manner of bearing of the patible Cross is warranted by Rolls of greatest Antiquity. |
▪ II. † patible, a. Obs.
(ˈpætɪb(ə)l)
[ad. L. patibil-is, f. pat-ī to suffer: see -ible.]
1. Capable of suffering or undergoing something; liable to undergo something; subject to something.
| 1603 Harsnet Pop. Impost. 115 The deuil looked like a patible old Coridon, with a payre of hornes on his heade and a cowes tayle at his breech. 1656 R. Robinson Christ All 134 [Light] is an accidental form or a patible quality. a 1834 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 211 [Man] is a passive as well as active being: he is a patible agent. |
b. Capable of or liable to suffering; passible.
| 1600 W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 48 The patible and withall impatible body of our Sauiour Christ. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 813 The Demoniack Bodies..have..Gross Matter in them, and are Patible. 1691 Baxter Repl. Beverley 6 The raised wicked have not bodies less sensible, patible, or that need less food. |
2. ‘Capable of being suffered, endurable, tolerable’. (In Dictionaries.)
| 1623 Cockeram, Patible, to be suffered. 1658 Phillips, Patible, to be suffered or indured. 1731 Bailey, Patible,..sufferable. 1755 Johnson, Patible, sufferable; tolerable. |