a. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] Capable of being vanquished or overcome.
1555. Watreman, Fardle Facions, App. 309. Ye shal be of all menne moste strong and valiaunte in fight, and vanquisheable to none enemie.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., II. Banisht, forlorne, despairing,… vanquishable.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. iv. 87. That great Gyant … was only vanquishable by the Knights of the Well.
1736. Ainsworth, I. Vanquishable, vincibilis, superabilis.
1831. Coleridge, Table T., 25 July. I should not have wished for a more vanquishable opponent.
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 221. In which she again proved not to be vanquishable.
