Meaning of præferable | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic spelling of preferable.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“[…]; the via antiqua is probably the ſureſt, our building is Monarchical, conſtantly framed accordingly, nothing is perfect in this World, what hath leaſt imperfection is præferable, offended with that, like⟳ Sick-men we have⟳ toſt and turn’d, yet find⟳ no eaſe, what ſhall we do?”

“Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable.”

“Chriſtianity præferable to Deiſm, as ſtated by a deiſt.”

“This is in the indicative mood (and not the imperative) i. e. “ye do conteſt and ſtrive whoſe particular gift is beſt and moſt præferable;”[…]Alluding to the Jewiſh church, that upon opening the gates of the temple, the ſeſſion of religion is præferable to an hypocritical one;”

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