deferential (deferenshal)

[= F. déféren tiel, Their guilt is wrapped in deferential names. Lowell , Tempora Mutantur. 2. In an at., conveying away or carrying off; They dauncen deffly , and singen soote. Spenser, Shep. Cal., April. defiablet, a. [ME. dyffyable ; defy + -able .] Digestible. And he must drawe him to places of swete ayre and hungry; and ete nourishable meetes and dyfyable also. Julian a Berners , Treatyse of Fy hynge wyth an Angle, [fol. 1, back.