capable intelligent, able to understand, quick
of apprehension:
“if their daughters be capable”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 2.
75
(with a quibble) ;
“capable of things serious,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4.
753
;
“ingenious, forward, capable,”
RICHARD III., iii. 1. 155
;
“the more capable creature,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 3.
302
;
“are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows,”
HAMLET, iii. 2. 11
; (
“have a capacity for nothing,”
MALONE)
“preaching to stones, Would make them capable,”
HAMLET, iii. 4. 127.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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