a. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] That may be quenched.
1611. Cotgr., Amortissable, quenchable, stintable, dissolueable.
a. 1620. J. Dyke, Sel. Serm. (1640), 8. If … it be a quenchable fire.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., v. Had we thought that your … drought was quenchable.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. IV. ix. Fire itself is quenchable, yet only quenchable at first.
Hence Quenchableness (Bailey, vol. II. 1727).
