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demonstrable, a.|dɪˈmɒnstrəb(ə)l, ˈdɛmənstrəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. dēmonstrābil-is, f. demonstrāre: see demonstrate and -ble.]
Capable of demonstration.
1. Capable of being shown or made evident.
†b. occas. = Evident, apparent (obs.).
c1400Rom. Rose 4691 I wolde..Shewe thee withouten fable A thyng that is not demonstrable. 1530Palsgr. 309/2 Demonstrable, demonstrable. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iv. 142 Some vnhatch'd practise, Made demonstrable heere in Cyprus to him, Hath pudled his cleare Spirit. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vi. (1843) 292/1 That it should be more demonstrable to the kingdom, than yet it was, that the war was, on his majesty's part, purely defensive. 1739Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 46 In what shape they wou'd severally come out..was not then demonstrable to the deepest foresight. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 263 This body without any demonstrable influence of a nucleus is capable of subdividing. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 158 Upon the vaso-motor nerves..[it] has no demonstrable influence.
2. Capable of being proved clearly and conclusively
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. xxiv, This is a certaine waye to fynde any touche line, and a demonstrable forme. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxiii. (1611) 334 All points of Christian doctrine are either demonstrable conclusions or demonstrative principles. 1662H. More Philos. Writ. Pref. Gen. (1712) 13 It being so mathematically demonstrable that there is that which is properly called Spirit. 1745Fielding True Patriot Wks. 1775 IX. 334 With numberless other propositions equally plain and demonstrable. 1864Bowen Logic xi. 374 Propositions are also said to be demonstrable, if they require or admit of proof.
Hence deˈmonstrableness = demonstrability.
1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal i. 30 The irrefragable demonstrableness thereof. 1706S. Clarke Evid. Nat. & Rev. Relig. 282 (L.) The natural demonstrableness both of the obligations and motives of morality. |