adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a manner admitting of excuse; so as to deserve being excused.
a. 1612. Donne, Βιαθανατος (1644), 124. Priviledges and exemptions from that Law, he may be excusably ignorant of.
1704. Hearne, Duct. Hist. (1714), I. 411. He taught … that no Man could excusably live Idle in the World.
1824. L. Murray, Eng. Gram. (ed. 5), I. 426. His ideas may, very excusably, be on some subjects incomplete.
1884. Manch. Exam., 21 Nov., 6/1. On this matter Lord Northbrook was excusably angry.
