spirable

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  1. Capable of being breathed; respirable. The spirable odor and pestilent steame ascending from it put him out of his bias of congruity. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 173). (Davies.)

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  1. from Latin spirabilis, that may be breathed, respirable, from spirare, breathe, blow: see spire.
 

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