a. [f. TAKE v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being taken; that may or can be taken; in various senses; in first quot., comprehensible, intelligible (see TAKE v. 46).
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. ii. 11. Which … is not takeable of mannis witt.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., II. vi. (1675), 116. Necessary to the rendring these Medicines takable by me.
1803. Hist. Europe, in Ann. Reg., 21/1. In the last war we had taken every thing that was takeable.
1826. Examiner, 772/1. Every take-able seat in the house had been taken.
1863. E. Schalk, Campaigns of 1862 & 1863, iv. 143. Whether Chattanooga was takable or not at that time, I do not know.
1893. Temple Bar Mag., XCVII. 608. It is the only one takable, and I take it.
