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increasable, a.|ɪnˈkriːsəb(ə)l|
Also 6–7 en-, 6–9 increaseable, 8 increasible.
[f. increase v. + -able.]
Capable of being increased; susceptible of increase.
1534More Treat. Passion Introd., Wks. 1270/2 Their full and perfit, and not encreceable blisse. 1611Cotgr., Multipliable, multipliable, increaseable. 1733Tull Horse-Hoing Husb. 17 So is.. this Pasture Increasible ad Infinitum. 1735Law Enquiry i. (R.), But if we could once suppose an end of these, they would be no longer increasable. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 38 To grant the lands to individuals at a low quit-rent, increasable at definite periods. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art i. 30 A certain quantity of art-intellect is born annually..not increaseable by a single grain.
Hence inˈcreasableness, capacity of being increased; inˈcreasably adv. (in quot. = increasingly).
1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. i. xxiv. 33 a, The madnesse of men increaseably putteth it in practise. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 766 Indefinite encreasableness of body and space seems to be mistaken for a positive infinity thereof. 1735Law Enquiry i. (R.), We find an indefinite increasableness of some of our ideas, an impossibility of supposing any end of them. |