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conveyable, a.|kənˈveɪəb(ə)l|
[f. convey v.1 + -able.]
†1. Having the quality of leading or conducting.
1567Drant Horace To Rdr. sig. * iv, It is a more conveyghable waye to the top of the hill.
2. That may be carried or transported.
1665Ray Flora 50 Transferable favours from one florist to another, aptly conveyable many miles distant. 1853Fraser's Mag. XLVII. 75 Cholera not contagious, but conveyable in atmosphere.
†3. Transferable, transmissible. Obs.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 663 An euerlasting priesthood and not conueyable.
4. Communicable.
1738Anderson in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 320 Our thoughts are conveyable in writing. 1756Burke Subl. & B. v. vii, Opinions..conveyable for the most part by words only.
5. That may be legally conveyed.
1875Poste Gaius ii. Comm. (ed. 2) 177 Corporeal hereditaments were conveyable by feoffment. |