a. [f. COUNSEL v. + -ABLE.]
1. Open to counsel: willing to be counselled.
1530. Lyndesay, Test. Papyngo, 515. Allace! that daye had he bene counsalabyll, He had obtenit laude, glore, and victorie.
c. 1610. Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (1683), 135. His Majesty engaged also to me to be secret, constant and counselable.
1679. J. Goodman, Penit. Pardoned, III. iii. (1713), 310. He requires a perswadable counsellable temper.
2. Of things: To be recommended; advisable.
1644. Charles I., Lett., in Carte, Ormonde (1736), II. App. 6. In case the Rebels here clap up peace with me … which possibly were not counsellable for me to refuse.
1655. Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden), II. 306. I know it is very councelable to vnite all factions against the present vsurper.
1668. Clarendon, Vind. Tracts (1727), 73. His Majesty found it most counsellable to resolve to make a defensive war.
