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English
Etymology
From descend + -able.
Adjective
descendable (comparative more descendable, superlative most descendable)
- Alternative spelling of descendible
1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: J. S. Jordan, , →OCLC, page 129:The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.