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sayable, a. and n.|ˈseɪəb(ə)l|
[f. say v.1 + -able.]
A. adj. Capable of being said.
1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. viii. §9 What is suggested in times of play should be rightly sayable without toil. 1891F. M. Wilson Primer Browning 132 Browning has said all that was sayable concerning the celebrated cause. 1902Month Nov. 463 To him, nothing is sayable which has already been said.
B. n. That which can be said; a statement which it is possible to make.
1937Essays & Studies XXII. 136 The meanable crystallized and fixed in the sayable. 1957G. Ryle in M. Black Importance of Lang. (1962) 169 It is the foreign relations, not the domestic constitutions of sayables that engender logical troubles and demand logical arbitration. 1969J. S. Cunningham Powers that Be 3 Infant sayables Along the seamy permeable Undersides of words. |