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from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of pierceable.
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Examples
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Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadic grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand; Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starr: And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farr; Faire harbour that them seems; so in they entered ar.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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