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Webster 1913 Edition
Battable
Bat′ta-ble
,Adj.
[See
Batful
.] Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.
[Obs.]
Burton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Battable
BAT'TABLE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
battable
battable
English
Adjective
battable (comparative more battable, superlative most battable)
- (obsolete) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy