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definable, a.|dɪˈfaɪnəb(ə)l|
[f. define v. + -able.]
Capable of being defined.
a1660Hammond Wks. I. 291 (R.) Great variety..of..opportunities, not defineable particularly. 1682Dryden Relig. Laici Pref. (Globe) 186 As if infinite were definable, or infinity a subject for our narrow understanding. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 227 Islam is definable as a confused form of Christianity. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. xxvii, Something apart from all the definable interests of her life. 1893F. Hall in Nation LVII. 45/2 The ordinary predicate, that briefly definable by ‘affirm’.
Hence deˈfinably adv.
1805Foster Ess. i. iii. 31 A state most definably corresponding to the subject of your attention. |