tŏlĕrābĭlis, e, adj. [tolero].
I Pass. , that may be borne , bearable , supportable , endurable , passable , tolerable (class.): amicitiae si tolerabiles erunt, ferendae sunt, Cic. Lael. 21, 78: tolerabilis conditio servitutis, id. Cat. 4, 8, 16: genus rei publicae, id. Rep. 1, 26, 42: fenus, id. Att. 6, 1, 16: hoc utcumque tolerabile: gravius illud quod, etc., Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 2: regi tolerabili, aut, si vultis, etiam amabili, Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44; cf. orator, id. Brut. 48, 178: oratores, id. de Or. 1, 2, 8: Minucius jam ante vix tolerabilis, Liv. 22, 27, 1: non tolerabile numen, Verg. A. 5, 768: habitus, Val. Max. 4, 1, 1.— Comp. : senectus, Cic. Sen. 3, 8: tolerabilius est sic dicere, etc., id. de Or. 1, 50, 218.— Sup. : sententia, Dig. 28, 5, 18. —
II Act. , that can easily bear or endure , enduring , sustaining , supporting (rare; not in Cic.; but cf. tolerabiliter, 2.): homo, Ter. Heaut. 205: quas (oves) ille tempore auctumni ratus adhuc esse tolerabiles, i. e. able to support the winter , Col. 7, 3, 14.—Adv.: tŏlĕrābĭ-lĭter .
1 Bearably , passably , tolerably : facere aliquid, Col. 11, 2, 85: dicere, id. 2, 2, 3: dare veratrum, Cels. 2, 13.—
2 For toleranter, patiently : etenim si dolores eosdem tolerabilius patiuntur, Cic. Fin. 3, 13, 42; so, tolerabilius ferre igniculum desiderii, id. Fam. 15, 20, 2.