a. Obs. [ad. F. louable:—L. laudābilis LAUDABLE. (Perhaps partly confused with LOVABLE2.)] Permissible, desirable, commendable.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VI. 103. Ich rede þe … rape þe to by-gynne Þe lyf þat ys lowable and leel to þe soule.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 249/2. Thyrdly for the lowable dystrybucion of the tresours that he gaf alle to poure men wysely.
1538. J. Butlar, Lett. to Cranmer, in C.’s Misc. Writ. (Parker Soc.), II. 373. I have declared to the prior that his third Article is not lowable.
1545. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, Prol. B vj. Honest and helthsum decoration & clendlynes, alwaies most lowable and commendable in a woman.
1639. Chas. I., Declar. Tumults Sc., 63. According to the lowable lawes and constitutions received in this Realm.
