dowable
English
Etymology
From Middle French dowable;[1] equivalent to dow + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdaʊəbəl/
Adjective
dowable (not comparable)
- Capable of being endowed.
- Entitled to dower.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- all wives would have become dowable of such lands as were held to the use of their husbands
References
- “dowable, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dowable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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