† imˈportunable, a. Obs.
Also 5 in-.
[f. importune a. (or ? v.) + -able.]
1. Burdensome, onerous, grievous, heavy.
| 1482 Paston Lett. No. 867 III. 297 [They] wold have..taryd hym there and his councell to his gret inportunabill charges. 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 18 Preamble, To theyr greate importunable losse troble hurte and dammayge. 1529 More Dyaloge i. 23 b/2 Forbyddyng them to binde and lay vppon other pore mennys bakkes importunable burdeyns. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxi. §3 They felt the weight of their done wrongs too importunable for them any longer to beare. |
2. Troublesome; = importunate a. 2 b.
| 1566 Drant Horace, Sat. i. ix. argt., In generall he controwleth people inquisitiue, and importunable tatlers. |