1qualified, suitable:
(
1358-60
)
Item, comandé fust […] q’il […] dusse servir en le mister auxi come vallet ové ascun bone homme tanqe il fust able, pur ceo q’il ne fust apprentiz qe par un an et demi
74
(
c.1413
)
que null alien […] occupiera comme meistre […] avant q’il soyt examiné, serché et apprové pur abill
i 149
(
1469
)
si ele present un clerk a l’evesque que n’est pas able
119.28
♦
able-bodied:
(
1402;
MS: s.xv1
)
commanda son chapellein de publicer en le pulputte […] a tous ses parochiens q’estoient ables, q’ils deuissent lour faire prestes en lour meillour manere
100.52.21
♦
competent, expert:
(
1294
)
ele ne recevereyt nul home a reconisaunce fere si yl ne seit a çoe able
21-22 Ed I 319
2ship.(of ship) seaworthy:
(
c.1340
)
nefs bonnes, ables et suffisants
10
3appropriate, applicable:
(
s.xiv2;
MS: c.1400
)
Pur cé sept chosez me semble etre qe sont ables au corps
(Latin: Septem igitur michi videntur esse que possunt corporibus aptari) et sont tresavenantz et a benurtee suffisantz
56
4lawentitled to legal rights, especially of inheritance:
(
1312
)
Il ad accepté la persone able car il ne plede mye pur li bastarder
Ed II xii 187
(
1368
)
qe les enfantz neez par dela deinz les Seignuries de Caleys, Guynes et Gascoigne […] soient si avant ables & enheritables […] come autres enfantz neez deinz le Roialme d’Engleterre
i 389
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