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fixable, a.|ˈfɪksəb(ə)l|
Also 5 fixabull, -ibill, 8–9 fixible.
[f. fix v. + -able.]
Capable of being fixed: in various senses of the vb.
In quot. 1486 = fitché (Her.)
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. C ij b, Hit is calde a cros patee fixible. 1648W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. ix. §2 Since they cannot then stay what is transitory, let them attend to arrest that which is fixable. 1785Phil. Trans. LXXV. 370 The stock K is to slide in a rebated..groove AD, and be fixable to any part thereof by the screw O. 1796Hist. in Ann. Reg. 49 The highest extent..was fixable by the magistrate. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 76 The chemical student is taught not to be startled at disquisitions on..latent and fixible light. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) I. i. i. ii. 7 For ours is a most fictile world..A world not fixable.
b. Capable of being made non-volatile. † fixable air: carbonic acid gas.
1766Lee in Phil. Trans. LVI. 100 The quick-lime, attracting fixable air, was reduced. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 267 The air in animals is mostly inflammable, but that in vegatables fixible. 1887Sat. Rev. 8 Jan. 65 Substances..which have a..fixable odour. |