Both Uses of
practicable
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Every conceivable aid, method, stratagem, mechanism, by which these last desperate eight hundred yards could be overpassed by a human being unperceived, was revolved in her busy brain, and dismissed as impracticable.†
Chpt 40-42
- Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct, and Bathsheba was astonishing all around her now, for her philosophy was her conduct, and she seldom thought practicable what she did not practise.†
Chpt 52-54 *
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