a. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] That may or can be followed.
1548. Gest, Pr. Masse, 136. Ar not wee named Christians for that we ought to professe and geve ful credence to his sayinges and practyse and embrace hys doyinges as followable and beleveable?
1611. Cotgr., Imitable, imitable, followable.
1830. N. S. Wheaton, Jrnl., 199–200. A mistake which is followable by instant degradation, is apt to produce a hurry and confusion of ideas in sensitive minds, which will probably cause them to blunder in the next attempt, and the next, each of which is followed by degradation in a moment to a lower place.
1888. Dublin Rev., XIX. Jan., 218–9. The Church has indeed declared St. Alphonsus to be a ‘Doctor Ecclesiæ,’ his system of morals by consequence to be void of error, and followable as a sure guide by any priest in deciding moral questions.
