a. Also 4 vapour(e)-. [ad. med.L. vapōrābilis: see VAPOUR sb. and -ABLE. Cf. OF. vaporable.]
1. Capable of being converted into vapor.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XI. iv. (Bodl. MS.). Heete of heuen … drawiþ it silfe to fulle sotellich vaporable parties of water and of erþe.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 357. Eyther it is not of vaporable nature, or to be of smaule quantitie.
1676. Phil. Trans., XI. 614. The first Beings or Embrions of mineral salts are nothing but vapours, or juices not concreted, totally vaporable.
1681. Phil. Collect., XII. 89. By reason of the fumes Lead usually emits, being a quick vaporable Metal.
1857. Gosse, Omphalos, xii. 355. There would be no deposition from atmosphere if the water had not first been carried up by evaporation; and the vaporable fluid is obtained from the moistened soil.
1893. Pall Mall G., 12 Jan., 3/3. The vaporable parts ascending to the clear ether of heaven.
† 2. Capable of converting substances into vapor. Obs.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. xi. (Bodl. MS.). White comeþ of vapoureable aier & watry þat is in þe membres … for white comeþ or hote aier & vaporable bestes beþ white vnder þe wombe.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Gov. Princes, Wks. (S.T.S.), II. 118. The nature is mare vaporable and of better digestioun to corrump and bray the metis.
