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[ME. estyvous, In landes that beth estyvous for heete The figtree latly riping for to gete. He now Temple . found that such friends as benefits had gathered round him were little estimable . Goldsmith, Vicar, iii. Jesus was always more tender with the Sadducees than with the Pharisees. He evidently regarded an honest sceptic as more estimable than a ritualist. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 185. II. n. That which is valuable or highly esteemed; one who or that which is worthy of regard. [Rare.] The Queen of Sheba, among presents unto Solomon, brought some plants of the balsam tree, as one of the peculiar estimables of her country. Sir T. Browne , Misc., p. 50.