Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Allowable

Allowable ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[French allouable.]

1.
Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obsolete] — Hacket
2.
Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.