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expressible, a.|ɛkˈsprɛsɪb(ə)l|
Also 7 -able.
[f. as prec. + -ible.]
1. Capable of being expressed.
1605R. Carew in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 100 In some [words] we buylde others not expressable in their mother tongue. a1628Preston Serm. (1630) 43 As farre as it is expressable, we will explaine unto you. 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. ii. ix. 403 They are under an expressible sense of Divine Wrath. 1794Sir W. Jones Orthogr. Asiatic Words Wks. 1799 I. 192 A diphthong composed of our first and third vowels, and expressible, therefore, by them. 1851Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. iii. ii. iii. §26 Michael Angelo held the imagination to be entirely expressible in rock. 1875Jevons Money 70 Easily expressible in terms of the unit.
†2. Able to express oneself. Obs.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xli. 240 In Loue and Thanks..tis in a Mans own power to be expressible. |