a. Obs. In 4 cumpanyable. [an OF. cum-, compaignable, -agnable, with ny for gn mouillé, which became simple n in the form COMPANABLE.] Sociable, friendly, companionable.
c. 1326. Cour de L., 3805. Phelyp to hym was cumpanyable.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 109/1. Companyable, or felawble, or felawly, socialis.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, x. (1616), 128. That he might be companiable and ciuile.
1630. Sanderson, Serm., II. 276. A man, who whilst he was master of his reason was quiet and companiable.
1793. J. Williams, Earl of Barrymore, 23. His companiable points had singular seduction.
1822. Coleridge, in Blackw. Mag., XI. 12. Close behind him plashed and murmured the companiable stream.
Hence † Companiableness.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. N. T., IV. xv. (1634), 189. His retirednesse was for prayer; his companiablenesse [ed. 1796 companableness] was for preaching.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., VII. (1843), 433/1. In all such encounters he [Falkland] had about him a strange cheerfulness and companiableness.
