damageable

English

From damage +‎ -able.

damageable (comparative more damageable, superlative most damageable)

(obsolete) Hurtful; pernicious.
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
  That it be not damageable vnto your royall maiestie.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  Verily experience makes us thereby feele and undergoe many damageable treasons.
Capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage.

capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage

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