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comparative more payably, superlative most payably
Of a mine etc.: so as to yield profit; profitably. quotations examples
In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126