Aggettivo
Capable of being aimed.
Uso- not-comparable
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An apparatus for enabling a user to orient an aiming axis of an aimable device at a desired orientation with respect to a line of sight from the user to a target […]
Aggettivo
Likeable, amiable.
Uso- raro
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And almoſt all have their Crooks enriched with Devices, Cyphers and Ribands, and the propriety of their Habits, ſerves to render them more aimable: […] They inform themſelves with care, and they tell to all they meet, all the marks of this aimable Animal, […] Remember not (I ſay) the Sunbeams to be as illuſtrious as I have depainted ’em; Nor our Rivers whoſe waves are Argent; Nor the aimable obſcurity of our Grots: […] Nor the aimable diverſity of our Flowers: […]
Widowhood pityable in its ſolitary Loſs, but aimable and comely, when it is ordained with Gravity and Purity; […] Let me then, whilſt I have my Day of Life, divorſe Sin from me, and hate it mortally, becauſe it is an Enemy to God; and embrace the divine Vertues, that are in themſelves Aimable, and Delightfull, conducing to the Health and Wellfare of the Body; […] O how Aimable are thy Dwellings thou Lord of hoſts! […] by turning upon me thine aimable Eyes, haſt darted Comfort into my Soul; […]
He was beautiful in Perſon, and aimable in Temper, and, in a Word, was as compleat a Gentleman as the Catholick Court had bred for a long while. […] It is enough he knows what paſs’d was between two Lovers, well intention’d and aimable, who had known one another a great while, and were not come thither to pick Straws. […] Celinda perceiving her Coſen well inform’d of the Matter, and finding ſhe could no longer diſguiſe her Sentiments, acknowledged ſhe had been for ſome time convinc’d of the Count’s Inclinations, and agreed with her that he was a very aimable Perſon, but ſaid, that finding no Emotion in her ſelf towards him, ſhe could not think ſhe was culpable for not loving him, nor giving him any Tokens of her Affection.
The difference between these poets is that whereas Mme. de Noailles’ novel “La Nouvelle Espérance” is utterly bad, the prose scarcely readable, pretentious, twisted, quite un-French, the characterisation feeble to the degree of inanity, the immorality exasperating in its stupid unaccountableness, Mme. de Régnier’s novel “L’Inconsciente” is admirably artistic, finished, original and aimable even in its tristeful unconsciousness of evil.