a. [a. Fr. accostable (16th c. in Litt.): see ACCOST and -ABLE.]
† 1. actively: Ready to accost, courteous. Obs.
1622. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 92. The Walloon is quick and sprightful, accostable and full of compliment. Ibid. (1634), II. 24. The French are a free and debonnaire acostable people:… at first entrance one may have acquaintance.
2. passively. Capable of being accosted or approached; approachable, accessible, affable.
1655. Lestrange, K. Charles, 92. Seeing God is accostable by inorganicall and inaudible ejaculations.
1863. N. Hawthorne, Old Home (1879), Up the Thames, 285. Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors.
