Adjective
Nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).
Usage- not-comparable
- Obsolete
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I bought a wench yisterday, cost me 3 taies, for w’ch she must serve 5 yeares […] She is but 12 yeares ould, over small yet for trade, but yow wold littell thynke that I have another forthcominge that is mor lapedable, yet it is true, & I think a gentelwoman of your accoyntance.
[T]he exspected long looked for houre […] was now come; for that she was lapidable and ripe for man, and that all the time thenceforth she should continue a forst chastity, would be little or no cost, except what was expended in oatmeal or loam: Ventricia cheared up her self, well contented with so easie and beneficial a cure.
Yet do thou cheriſh thy Partner, whilſt her innocent Eyes are gazing on the Green Garment, that covereth the Surface of her Illapidable Virginity, ruminating upon the Departure of her neareſt and deareſt Friend. […] In that Day thee wilt ſee with the Eye of Fleſh; but if thee purſues it farther, to know whether ſhe be Lapidable, or not, thee art certainly a Tyrant: For the Hammer of thy Loins, will at length beat down the Fortreſs of her Porto Bello; and the Pillars of her Tabernace will be ſpread abroad, until thee haſt plundered the City, and taken the Precious Stones away[.]