Meaning of flabile | Babel Free

Definitions

Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.

obsolete

Examples

“In the then earlyer times , the comon country musick was ordinarily of the flabile kind”

“My spirits a drear pensiveness depress'd, And deep-drawn sighs incessant heav'd my breast. Alas ! in sick'ning semblance did I trace The gloomy fall of our own flabile race.”

“Having lain out on the ground all night, our chief concern (now that we had got rid of our red intruders,) was to provide more comfortable lodgings for the following night, which we were enabled to do by rigging up a commodious tent of canvass in our possession, and which answered a temporary purpose, until a thunder gust lifted the fabric from its stake-tied foundation, impressed us with the necessity of providing shelters of more storm-resisting material than our flabile and fluttering canvass afforded.”

“There is not even anything that is either humid or breathly (flabile), or igneous.”

“Millionaires are not much troubled with hyteria. They are a calm, flaccid, flabile, placid lot who pat themselves on the back on account of their marvelous poise of character, fat bank account and U.S. bonds.”

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