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explainable, a.|ɛkˈspleɪnəb(ə)l| Also 7 explanable. [f. prec. + -able.] That may or can be explained, made clear, or accounted for; capable of interpretation.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 842 Many of these examples..are..but explanable by weake conjectures. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxi. §13. 268 Thus is it symbollically explainable and implieth purification. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 657 Virtues which have a worth of their own explainable to his understanding. 1842Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 77, I have an idea not easily explainable in writing. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 176 Phenomena..explainable by the action of the drug upon the sensitive nerves. |