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interpretable, a.|ɪnˈtɜːprɪtəb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. interpretābilis (Tert.), f. interpretārī to interpret: see -ble. Cf. obs. F. interpretable (Godef.).]
1. Susceptible of interpretation, explicable.
1611Florio, Interpetrabile, interpretable. 1672Stillingfleet Idol. Ch. Rome (ed. 2) 37 The letter of the Scripture as interpretable by every private mans reason. 1852Tait's Mag. XIX. 552 It had a real, vocal, interpretable language. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 49 They are facts that are not interpretable by consciousness.
2. Capable of being interpreted or construed in a specified manner.
1650Vind. Hammond's Addr. 34 'Tis not..intelligible to me, how those words..should be..interpretable to any further sense. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. i. 12 Covering the head with a hat..is in itself an indifferent thing, and people by usage or consent may make it interpretable either way. 1816Coleridge Statesm. Man. 357 The words of St. John..are in their whole extent interpretable of the understanding. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iii. §47 (1875) 163 Such alleged further forms are interpretable as generated by the primary form.
Hence interpretaˈbility, inˈterpretableness, the quality of being interpretable; inˈterpretably adv., in an interpretable manner.
1679J. Goodman Penit. Pardoned i. iii. (1713) 60 Whereas the habits were voluntarily contracted, the effects are interpretably so too. 1685H. More Cursory Reflexions 18 The Natural Interpretableness of the Apocalypse that way. 1854G. Boole Investigation Laws of Tht. 67 The same conditions of interpretability. 1898Fraser Reid v. 66 The uniformity and therefore interpretability of nature. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics ii. 64 It is not translatability but interpretability in terms of an empiricist language that can establish meaning. |