Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Liable to waste.
  • Wasteful.

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Examples

  • The bones were clothed with flesh and blood, the "wastable country verament" (as the dullest of the Graal chroniclers says in a phrase that applies capitally to his own work) blossomed with flower and fruit.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • [T] hyne ale .v. dayes old er þow s {er} ue it abowt, for ale þat is newe is wastable w {i} t {h} - owteñ dowt:

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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