a. [f. APPROACH v. + -ABLE; cf. mod.Fr. approchable.]

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  1.  Capable of being approached; accessible.

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1571.  Digges, Pantom., x. D ij a. Without shadowe … to take heighthes approchable.

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a. 1797.  H. Walpole, George II. (1847), III. v. 125. The town was … approachable only by a narrow causeway.

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1856.  Kane, Arct. Expl., I. v. 50. It was desirable that … it should be approachable by boats.

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  2.  fig. in various uses of the vb.

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1611.  Cotgr., Abordable, affable, abboordable, approachable.

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1750.  Johnson, Rambler, No. 72, ¶ 11. He that regards the welfare of others should make his virtue approachable.

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1828.  Carlyle, Goethe, Misc., I. 174. This Truth … approachable by most, attainable by some small number.

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