Personable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Personable \Per"son*a*ble\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*[.a]*b'l), a.
     1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of
        good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or
        woman.
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              Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not
              personable.                           --E. Hall.
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     2. (Law)
        (a) Enabled to maintain pleas in court. --Cowell.
        (b) Having capacity to take anything granted.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  personable
       adj : (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "personable":
     Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, authoritative, becoming,
     bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian,
     callipygous, charismatic, charming, comely, consequential,
     curvaceous, curvy, effective, effectual, efficacious, enchanting,
     estimable, fair, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, important,
     influential, likely, lovely to behold, magnetic, momentous,
     persuasive, pleasing, pneumatic, potent, powerful, presentable,
     prestigious, reputable, shapely, sightly, slender, stacked,
     statuesque, strong, suasive, substantial, telling, weighty,
     well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made,
     well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, winning
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant 
  was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word 
  is obsolete.