impetrable

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Etymology

From Latin impetrabilis. Compare French impétrable. See impetrate.

Adjective

impetrable (comparative more impetrable, superlative most impetrable)

  1. (obsolete) Capable of being obtained or influenced by petition.
    • 1634, Thomas Hobbes, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre:
      Wee must not therefore give our Confederates hope of pardon, either impetrable by words, or purchaseable by money

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