a. Obs. [ad. L. lacrimābilis, f. lacrimā-re to shed tears.]
1. Meet for tears or weeping; lamentable.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, vii. 32. To make hir to ouerthrowe & to brynge hir in-to exyle lacrymable.
1527. St. Papers Hen. VIII., I. 228. The hevy and lacrymable successe of Rome.
1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 359. To vthers lufe is richt Lacrymabill.
1594. 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus, in Thoms, E. E. Prose Rom. (1858), III. 373. The most lachrimable sight.
1648. J. Quarles, Fons Lachrym., A 7. Never were … Lamentations more requisite than in these Lachrymable Times.
2. Expressive of mourning; tearful.
1609. J. Davies (Heref.), Holy Roode (Grosart), 28/1. In Grones, and Sighes, and Lachrimable Noise.
1635. Heywood, Hierarchie, III. (1655), 158. Musicke can shew us which are the lacrymable notes.
