a. Obs. [a. Fr. agitable, ad. L. agitābilis, f. agitā-re: see AGITATE and -ABLE.] Capable of being agitated, easily moved, or disturbed.
1548. Hall, Edw. IV., 23. A rede wyth euery wind is agitable and flexible.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. xii. (1632), 593. The mind [of the vulgar] … is lesse penetrable and agitable.
1661. Origen, in Phenix (1721), I. 53. The finer and more agitable Particles. [Also in Johnson and mod. Dicts.]
