All 3 Uses of
practicable
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Only let him be tolerably well up in the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, with the slightest possible dab of red on the tip of his nose, and he'd be certain of three rounds the moment he put his head out of the practicable door in the front grooves O.P.' 'You view him with a professional eye,' said Nicholas, laughing.†
Chpt 22 *
- That was quite impracticable.†
Chpt 32
- Determined to ascertain, if he could, through John Browdie, how the case really stood, he betook himself to his daily occupation: meditating, as he went, on a great variety of schemes for the punishment of the Yorkshire schoolmaster, all of which had their foundation in the strictest principles of retributive justice, and had but the one drawback of being wholly impracticable.†
Chpt 40
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