prestable

English

Etymology

From Middle or early Modern French prestable, compare Modern French prêtable.[1] By surface analysis, prest +‎ -able.

Adjective

prestable (not comparable)

  1. (dated, Scotland, rare) payable

References

  1. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prestable, adj.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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