parsonable

Adjective

personable (comparative more personable, superlative most personable)

1. Of a person: having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.
   • We ſee one woman, whiche by one man hath manie children, of theym ſome be fayre and perſonable, ſome ill fauoured and croked, […]1541, [Aelius Lampridius], “The Oracion of the Emperour Alexãder to the People of Rome”, in Thomas Elyote [i.e., Thomas Elyot], transl., The Image of Gouernaunce Complied of the Actes and Sentences...

   Synonyms:

   good-looking, attractive, beauteous, beautifool, beautiful, beautimous, bona vardering, bonnie, breathtaking, captivating

   Antonyms:

   unattractive, unpersonable, bad, beat, butters, butt-ugly, clapped, coyote ugly, deform, fuckfaced

2. Of a person: having a pleasant manner; amiable, friendly.
   • A thouſand thoughts ſhe faſhioned in her mind, / And in her feigning fancie did pourtray / Him ſuch, as fitteſt he for loue could find, / VViſe, vvarlike, perſonable, courteous, and kind.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 445

   Synonyms:

   affable, agreeable, likeable, affectionate, amiable, bonhomous, amicable, chummy, companionable, congenial

   Antonyms:

   unpersonable, adverse, antagonistic, conflicting, contentious, counteracting, hostile, incompatible, inharmonious, inimical

3. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of personal (“done in person, without an intermediary”).

   Synonyms:

   personal

4. (obsolete) Being a legal person and thus able to maintain a plea in court, or to hold some property or right.
   • It is enacted, that the Kings Letters Patents hereafter enſuing made to Queen Elizabeth of her dovver, ſhall be good, and that the Queen be by that name perſonable to plead, and be impleaded, that parcell of her dovver aſſigned by the Kings Letters Patents under the ſeal of the Dutchy of Lancaſter...[1468, “Petitions of the Commons, with Their Summons”, in William Prynne, editor, An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London, from the Reign of King Edward the Second, unto King...