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dependible en · ADJ

Etymology

From depend + -ible.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic spelling of dependable.
   alt of dependable
   • I have found him during the whole of my own residence here (since 1872) the most steady and sober of men, always at his work, and a thoroughly dependible man in every way. 1883, Report on the Administration of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Penal Settlements of Port Blair and the Nicobars, for the Year 1882–1883, page 69:
   • Furthermore, Rexcraft, Inc., is starting 1927, with a complete net work of dependible jobbers from Coast to Coast. 1926, Musical Merchandise Combined for the Duration [with] The Music Trade Review, page 33:
   • […] still there is scarcely a hope of their gaining enough to enable Peel to carry on the Government with such constant and dependible majorities as can alone render it efficacious and secure. 1875, Charles Greville, The Greville Memoirs, page 215:
   • He is average in work, dependible in attitude, is always in the middle of all the kiddish pranks the other inmate's^([sic]) want to play. 1966, Fleishour V. United States of America, page 39:
   • […] though I believe the most dependible marks to be derived from the long-attenuated base of the frond, owing to the gradual dwarfing of the lower pinnæ; […] 1862, William Jackson Hooker, Species Filicum: Scolopendrium, page 212:

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