Both Uses of
practicable
in
Bleak House
- More impracticable men and boys persist in walking into Mr. Snagsby's sleep and terrifying him with unaccountable questions, so that often when the cock at the little dairy in Cursitor Street breaks out in his usual absurd way about the morning, Mr. Snagsby finds himself in a crisis of nightmare, with his little woman shaking him and saying "What's the matter with the man!"†
Chpt 25-27
- Mr. and Mrs. Bagnet both engage to have the requisite information ready and even hint to each other at the practicability of having a small stock collected there for approval.†
Chpt 49-51 *
Definition:
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(practicable) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
or more rarely:
usable for a specific purpose