controllableadj.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 3 If your friendship be fervent, & your kindnesse not controulable. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.]

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius i. f. 16 Is not this sentence manifest enough? the witnesse approued? the authoritie not comptrollable [L. authoritas irrefragabilis]?

1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable ii. 102 The Prince..hath absolute power, & not controulable, to command any thing.

1647 T. May Hist. Parl. ii. iv. 69 Under the Great Seal, which is the king's greatest and highest command, and not controllable, nor to be dispensed with.

1660 T. Warmstry Resurrection of Loyalty & Obed. 8 Like Wills and Testaments, which..are controulable by any succedent declarations.

1795 F. Plowden Church & State iii. v. 461 This jurisdiction he enjoyed by divine right..: therefore the acts of it could not be controllable or amenable to the temporal or civil power.

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. v, in Wks. (1662) 9 They all were controleable by the Apostles.

1616 R. Betts tr. King James VI & I Remonstr. Right of Kings Pref. sig. B4 The opinion, that leaues the States and Crownes of Kings controulable by the Pope.

1743 W. MacBean Constit. Germany iii. iii. 117 They are Independent Princes, not controlable but by God.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 159. ⁋8 It is to suppose custom instantaneously controllable by reason.

1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind I. v. 160 [Ill temper] must be extreme indeed, if it is not at least controllable in such situations.

1815 Port Folio Feb. 161 A strong natural dislike to deformity or unnatural appearances in our species..appears to be an instinctive feeling, not produced by reflexion, nor controllable by the will.

1871 E. C. G. Murray Member for Paris I. 231 The voice of the speaker..gathered firmness and became controllable.

1883 Times 23 Jan. 3/4 The ‘controllable’ [torpedoes]..capable of being directed by the operator.

1905 Daily Chron. 12 Jan. 8/5 The locomotive is double-headed, and controllable at either end, so that no turning is necessary.

1969 E. P. Anderson Home Appliance Servicing (ed. 2) v. 82 The function of resistance wire..is to reduce the current to a controllable value.

2010 New Yorker 20 Sept. 104/2 A larger-than-life, charismatic, canny man, who controls Atlantic City like a Mafia boss, with an army of not always controllable underlings.

1610 S. Daniel Tethys Festival in Order & Solemnitie Creation Prince Henrie Pref. sig. E^v When we shall see our greatest knowledges not to be fixt, but rowle according to the vncertaine motion of opinion, and controwleable by any surly shew of reason, which we find is double edged and strikes euery way alike.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vi. 21 Things of falsitie, controulable..by criticall and collective reason. View more context for this quotation

1651 Whole Triall Mr Love 10 You sometimes are so out, and in that you are controulable.

1700 C. Leslie Def. Snake in Grass i. 27 A Divine Inspiration, and so not Controulable by Scripture.

1778 Sketch Hist. 2 Acts Irish Parl. 46 (note) The word of God (which is not controulable by any earthly authority).

1929 Science 30 Aug. p. xii/2 The controllable pitch propeller is well worth the added cost for many types of airplane.

1991 Ship & Boat Internat. Apr. 21 (advt.) Sole UK agents for Hundested controllable pitch propellers.

2009 H. A. Skaarup Canad. Warplanes i. 392 Later models used a three-blade duralumin bracket-type controllable-pitch airscrew.

1675 R. Head Proteus Redivivus ii. xii. 325 The last doth it [sc. wheedles] as certainly, and less controulably than the former, but all three in a different manner.

1814 L.-M. Hawkins Rosanne I. i. 6 The feelings of her son were more than ordinarily or controlably strong.

1847 T. Brown in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. (1854) 58 243 The under-lifting bow stoppers..by which more cable can be gradually and controllably given to a vessel, whilst riding heavily at anchor.

1907 Canad. Patent Office Rec. Oct. 2560/1 [A] means for controllably regulating the temperature of the heating circuit.

2004 R. Heinberg Powerdown 100 It is essentially impossible to achieve a static or controllably contracting economy with a debt-based currency.