allowable
Adjective
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Adjective
allowable
- Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.
- Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
- Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
- Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- (obsolete) Praiseworthy.
- (permissible) leveful
allowable (plural allowables)
- permitted amount or activity.
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