Hypertext Webster Gateway: "permissible"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Permissible \Per*mis"si*ble\, a.
That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. --
{Per*mis"si*ble*ness}, n. -- {Per*mis"si*bly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
permissible
adj 1: that may be permitted especially as according to rule;
"permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax
deduction" [ant: {impermissible}]
2: that may be accepted or conceded; "a kind of speculation
that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in
medicine"
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