a. [f. LEISURE sb. + -ABLE; perh. on the supposed analogy of comfortable, honorable: cf. pleasurable.]
1. Proceeding or acting without haste; leisurely, deliberate.
[a. 1540. implied in LEISURABLY.]
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 479. Chosing rather to broyle him with leasurable tormentes … then to kill him at once.
1618. Bolton, Florus, IV. ii. (1636), 264. His [Pompey’s] over-great power … moved envy among the leisurable [L. otiosos] Citizens.
a. 1691. Boyle, Hist. Air, xiii. (1692), 81. I shall humbly reserve [this] to a more leasurable inquiry.
2. Not requiring haste; leisure (time). rare.
1607. Markham, Caval., V. (1617), 40. You must doe it by such leasurable times, that nature hauing no more then she is able to digest, may … come to be orderly satisfied.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., Pref. This I confesse … I had at leisurable hours composed.
1848. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., IX. II. 261. A leisurable period of the year.
1885. Pater, Marius the Epicurean, II. ix. (ed. 2), I. 149. Such a theory, at more leisurable moments, would, of course, have its precepts to propound.
