单词 | haveable |
释义 | haveableadj. That can be attained, obtained, or possessed. Now also: sexually desirable or available. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > able to be procurablec1449 purveyable1542 gettable1553 extant1555 parable1563 acquirable1606 gainable1611 purchasable1611 obtainablea1617 acquisitive1629 haveable1639 producible1640 come-at-able?1685 derivablea1711 attainable1712 embraceable1841 graspable1868 securable1876 1639 J. Symonds Case & Cure Deserted Soule xxxiv. 434 Till a man know the excellency of spirituall things,..and till he see them haveable and attainable, [etc.]. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 64 A thing not haveable in this world. a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 813 Others have arrived at Forgiveness, therefore it is haveable. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 159 The following charms..are haveable by others, who are not in possession of beauty. 1892 W. Harris Homiletical Comm. Prov. 310/2 Here is instruction—I. To hope for nothing but that which is haveable, and may well be had, and whereof we are capable, and that doth belong unto us. 1908 Cent. Path 22 Nov. 4/1 Such knowledge is ultimately havable by the constant seeker. 1988 C. Meredith Shifts (1990) ix. 128 She was plump but definitely haveable. 2000 J. Baumgardner & A. Richards Manifesta iv. 139 The racist sexual objectifying of black women into hungry, haveable pieces of ass. 2010 V. DeBerry & D. Grant Uptown 94 He had embraced his own personal mantra—he could have whatever was haveable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1639 |
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