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separable, a.|ˈsɛpərəb(ə)l|
Also 5–7 seperable.
[a. F. séparable (15th c.) or ad. L. sēparābil-is, f. sēparāre: see separate v. and -able.]
1. Capable of being separated.
separable accident, separable quality: one which can be separated from its subject.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xix. 193 Siþthen thei ben surlepes [MS. G. seperable]..thei han sondry names. 1532Tindale Expos. Matt. v–vii. Prol. (1550) 9 b, Though they [fayth, loue, and hope] be inseperable, yet they haue seperable and sondry offices. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 67 Common qualities, are separable, or inseparable. The former may be added or taked away from the subiect, without destruction thereof; as coldnesse from the water, whitenesse from paper. 1628T. Spencer Logick 64 Separable accidents. 1643D. Digges Unlawf. Taking Arms iv. 93 That the Magistrate is separable from the man is evident. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 217 A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 22 Shell..conical, separable into two parts. 1850Newman Lect. Difficulties Anglicans ix. 223 Catholics..hold that faith and love,..faith and works, are simply separable, and ordinarily separated in fact.
b. Gram.
1773Bayly Gram. Heb. 14 The Cases are expressed either by entire Prepositions, called separable, or by a letter of the preposition prefixed to the noun, and called inseparable. 1815S. Lyon Heb. Gram. 61 Separable pronouns, signifying the agent. 1888K. Meyer Germ. Gram. i. §246 Verbs compounded with separable prefixes.
†2. ? Capable of separating. Obs. rare—1.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxxvi. 6 In our two loues there is but one respect, Though in our liues a seperable spight.
Hence ˈseparableness; ˈseparably adv.
1628Coke On Litt. 151 b, The Rent incident to the Reuersion separably, but the fealtie incident to the Reuersion inseparably. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. To Rdr. b 5 b, The Separableness of Accidents from Subjects of Inhæsion. 1864Kingsley What, then, does Dr. Newman mean? 33 The separableness of faith and works. 1906Tablet 23 June 965 All idea of order or separableness among the elements of the spirit-life must be abandoned. |