a. rare. [f. as prec. + -ABLE.] = EXTORTIONATE.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., VI. 246. Two extortionable flatterers, Auarice, and Ignorance. Ibid., IX. 403–4. Finding the fellow … somewhat extortionable.

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1775.  Duchess Kingston, in Cooke’s Mem. S. Foote (1805), I. 205. An extortionable assassin of private reputation.

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