a. Obs. [a. OF. expugnable, ad. L. expugnābilis, f. expugnāre: see EXPUGN.] That may be taken by force, conquered or overcome.
1570. in Levins, Manip.
1586. A. Day, Eng. Secretary, II. (1625), 37. Nourishing an expugnable wickednesse.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1213. Syracon tooke an expugnable Fort by courruption of the Keepers.
1765. Hist. Europe, in Ann. Reg., 12. A place, which no art was requisite to defend, though a great deal to take it, if at all expugnable.
