1. That can be endured, suffered, put up with.
1800. Wordsw., Michael, 454. There is a comfort in the strength of love; ’Twill make a thing endurable, which else [etc.].
1823. Lamb, Elia (1860), 208. His Iago was the only endurable one which I remember to have seen.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), II. xi. 458. Life had become at least endurable to her.
2. Able or likely to endure, durable. rare.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 434. The Mule … ought to be brought up in … hard places, that so the hoofs may grow hard and indurable.
1616. Withals’ Dict., 549. Good manners are endurable, but beauty is lost by age.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XX. 328. Rock-rooted castles, that seem endurable till the solid globe shall dissolve.
1885. Manch. Weekly Times, Suppl. 20 June, 4/3. This sheepskin is not nearly so strong and endurable as the material it is made to simulate.
1886. Northern N. & Q., I. 51. The author has done a solid and endurable piece of work.
Hence Endurableness. rare. The state or character of being endurable.
1795. Coleridge, Plot Discovered, 18. If its only excellence, if its whole endurableness consist in motion.
