offensible

Adjective

offensible (comparative more offensible, superlative most offensible)

1. That may give offense; offensive.
   • Nether do I se to what purpose it is to burthen the Churche with tryfflinge and unprofitable Ceremonies; or as I maie terme them with their propre name, hurtefull and offensible ceremonies, when as there is libertie to have a symple and pure Order .1555 May 31, John Calvin, Letter to Richard Coxe and Other Englishmen at Frankfurt
   • Your Lordships say that her Majesty thinketh it strange, and taketh it offensible, that I appointed the Earl of Southampton general of the horse , seeing her Majesty not only denied it when I moved it, but gave an express prohibition to any such choice.1599 July 11, Robert Devereux, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
2. Able to take offense; offendable.
   • Not having danced there for many years, I was then invited to it by a lady out of the country whom I had too much regard for to decline the favour; and asking her what she would please to have called for, she said, Sir Watkin's Jig, which accordingly I called for by that appellation and no other...1857, John Byrom, The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom, page 510
   • Not because I am spoilt, though you knit your brows and think so. . nor because I am exacting and offensible, though you may fancy that too.1898, Robert Browning, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, page 142
3. Conducive to and associated with the commitment of offenses, especially criminal offenses.
   • offensible space
   • I might add to that, as a technical matter, the type of reactors the U.S. suppliers are not exporting, so called light water reactors, are the less offensible in terms of the proliferation problem, of potentially any other reactor type that has been developed.1976, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations, Export Reorganization Act of 1976, page 504