Associations to the word «Permissible»

Wiktionary

PERMISSIBLE, adjective. Permitted.

Dictionary definition

PERMISSIBLE, adjective. That may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction".
PERMISSIBLE, adjective. That may be accepted or conceded; "a kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats