pleasable, a. Now rare.
(ˈpliːzəb(ə)l)
Also 4 plesable, 6 pleasible.
[ME. plesable, a. OF. pleisable (c 1185 in Godefroy), plaisable agreeable, f. plaisir (= plaire) to please; see please and -able.]
1. Capable of being pleased; placable, mild.
| 1382 Wyclif Gen. xliii. 14 And my God Almyȝti make hym plesable to ȝow [Vulg. Deus..faciat vobis eum placabilem]. 1552 Northumberland in Tytler Edw. VI (1839) II. 148, I love not to have to do with men which be neither grateful nor pleasable. 1570 Levins Manip. 2/23 Pleasable, placabilis, e. 1839 Lady Granville Lett. 21 June, As good-humoured and pleasable as it is possible to be. |
† 2. Acceptable, pleasing, agreeable. Obs.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. lx. 7 Thei shul ben offrid vpon my plesable [1388 acceptable] auter. Ibid. lxi. 2, I shulde..prechen a ȝer plesable to the Lord [Vulg. Annum placabilem Domino]. 1554 Knox Godly Let. A iij b, I haue ben compelled to speake in your presens..such thinges as were not pleasable to the eares of men. |
Hence ˈpleasableness, placability.
| 1553 N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices i. (1558) 39 There is nothing more seemely for a great..man than pleasablenes and mercy. |