| 释义 |
nameable, a.|ˈneɪməb(ə)l|
Also namable.
[f. name v.1 + -able.]
1. That admits of being named, or being called by a certain name.
1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 299 This is the Heavenly Ideal (well named in Knox's time, and namable in all times, a revealed ‘Will of God’). 1843Mill Logic i. iii. §2 We shall commence with Feelings, the simplest class of nameable things. 1886Stevenson Dr. Jekyll 25 He gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.
2. Worthy of being named; memorable.
1780J. Adams 26 Lett. Revol. Amer. (1789) 23 The sixth talk is to shew, ‘that no person, in America, is of so much influence, power, or credit, that his death, or corruption, by English money, could be of any nameable consequence’. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iii. xiv. I. 311 Donauwörth... A Town nameable in History ever since. 1865Ibid. xviii. x. V. 253 Möllendorf, nameable from that day forward.
Hence nameaˈbility.
1882W. Hoey tr. Oldenberg's Buddha 230 The bases on which all nameability and all existence..rest. |