come-at-ability

Updated: August 26, 2026

Now, if a man was to sit down coolly, and consider within himself the make, the shape, the construction, come-at-ability, and convenience of all the parts which constitute the whole of that animal, called Woman, and compare them analogically I never understood rightly the meaning of that word, quoth my uncle Toby.

Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman