palpableadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈpalpəbl/, U.S.

/ˈpælpəb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English–1500s palpabil, Middle English– palpable, 1500s palpyble, 1600s palbable; also Scottish pre-1700 palpabill.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French palpable; Latin palpabilis.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French palpable that may be touched (c1365; from 15th cent. in figurative uses; French palpable ), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin palpabilis that may be touched (Vetus Latina), easily perceptible, sufficiently obvious (from a1215 in British sources) < classical Latin palpāre palp v.¹ + -bilis -ble suffix.With sense A. 2 compare post-classical Latin ‘Tenebrae tam densae ut palpari queant’, ‘darkness which may be felt’ (Vulgate: Exodus 10:21).

A. adj.

a. That may be touched, felt, or handled; perceptible by the sense of touch; tangible. palpable hit n. a solid blow, a forceful hit to the body; now chiefly figurative, and so passing into senses A. 3 and A. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adjective]

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tangible1589

tactable1611

tactile1615

Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 40 (MED) The sacrament of the auteer..is whight and round, visible and palpable.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xix. 235 (MED) As þre persones palpable is pureliche bote o man-kynde..So is god godes sone in þre persones þe trinite.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6778 To þe eye as it [sc. a tree] was visible... To mannys hond so it was palpable.

1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes vii. f. xxxix^v The Sacrament, signifieth and representeth the same visible, mortall, and palpable bodye of Christe vpon the crosse.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 232 A hit, a most palpable hit.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi. 371 Spirits..are therefore really Bodies; though that name in common Speech be given to such Bodies onely, as are visible, or palpable.

1712 tr. H. More Scholia Antidote Atheism 173 in H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 4) The Devil would so manage himself by the motion..of his body, which by this Systaltick power he could make tangible and palpable.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 73 The different dimensions of them..palpable to the touch, and visible to the eye.

1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 316 Irish superstition makes the Phooka palpable to the touch. To its agency the peasantry usually ascribe accidental falls.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 The stones were palpable enough, carried down by the cataract.

1931 V. Woolf Waves 240 I like what one touches, what one tastes. I like rain when it has turned to snow and become palpable.

1990 N. Baker Room Temperature v. 35 The best thing about it was what it shared with all babies' noses: not the gargoylian turn of its wings..nor the palpable bump at the bridge.

b. Medicine. Perceptible by palpation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [adjective] > examination by touch

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manipulated1899

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 769 The spleen was not palpable.

1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xxiii. 295 Even when peristalsis is not visible, it may be palpable; if the hand is kept flat upon the abdomen the underlying coil may be felt to harden and soften alternately.

1974 Nature 22 Mar. 344/2 At 72 and 96 h the lesions were smaller but still palpable.

1987 S. Sandler Osteopathy iv. 53 Palpation forms a major part of the osteopath's examination, because osteopaths believe that the palpable change in a tissue can affect the way that tissue functions.

2. Of darkness, mist, heat, etc.: so extreme or intense as to seem almost tangible. In later use also of a feeling or an emotional atmosphere.

ΚΠ

?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 136 (MED) No þing abidiþ to vs but..dercknesse palpable, þat is, so þick þat it may be gropid.

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 4379 (MED) There shalle be..ferefulst derknesse palpable.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 12 Uenus enshrowds theym with a thick fog palpabil ayrye.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xxxii. 375 There chanced to be a foggie mist, which continued a good part of the day, so thick and palpable, as men could not see before them.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 406 Who shall..through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way..?

a1703 J. Pomfret Dies Novissima in Poems (1790) 139 Now bolder fires appear, And o'er the palpable obscurement sport, Glaring and gay as falling Lucifer.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 91 For two whole hours, a palpable darkness prevailed.

1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol i. 5 Candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxvii. 81 Her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxix. 431 It was very cold, and the darkness was palpable.

1995 Times 23 May 14/3 The volatile chemistry between the two CBS anchorfolk was palpable every night as they sat, uncomfortably, side by side.

3. Readily perceptible by a sense other than touch; plainly observable; noticeable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible

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naked?c1225

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palpable?1435

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full-eyed1581

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eyeful?1611

plain1613

prospecta1640

unovercloudeda1658

intuitive1801

unmystified1822

shroudless1841

unforeshortened1846

trenchant1849

focusable1889

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > cognizable by the senses or phenomenal

palpable?1435

comprehensible1579

tractable1605

tangible1620

sensitive1686

phenomenic1808

phenomenal1825

?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 644 (MED) The roote y-take palpable to the siht, Conveyed by lynes be kyngis off grete prys.

c1450 Contin. Lydgate's Secrees (Sloane 2464) 2568 Evident toknys and signes palpable Of a fool.

a1500 (c1445) J. Lydgate Miracles St. Edmund 169 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 4402/2 (MED) God hath mervaylles wrought..Palpable exaumple in stoory men may se.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. G.i These..palpable odors, fumes, vapours..ascending to the braine.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Jan. (1970) I. 9 Dinner..was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 82 [Eyes of spiders] which indeed are so palpable that they are clearly to be seen by any man that wants not his own.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. vi. 236 What is dancing..but the harmony of motion rendered more palpable?

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxiii. 601 Soon that peculiar odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living sperm whale, was palpable to all the watch.

1880 M. E. Braddon Barbara II. x. 205 ‘Head's very hot,’ said the surgeon, a fact also painfully palpable to the patient.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 279/2 A bit of brilliant colour in a bonnet..has a certain degree of aesthetic value..palpable to the trained eye.

1985 J. Morris Last Lett. from Hav i. 17 A palpable smell of eggs haunted the apartment.

4. Of a fact, idea, quality, characteristic, etc.: easily perceived by the mind; manifest, obvious, clear.Frequently in pejorative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective]

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openeOE

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sensible?1531

discovered1537

plain as a pikestaff (also packstaff, pad-staff)1542

palpable1545

demonstrative1552

plain as the nose on (in) one's face1560

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apertive1661

conspectable1727

suggestive1806

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (iv.) f. 61^v In stormes and derkenes of errours more palpable then in the seruitute of egypt.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 164 Opinions of palpable idolatrie.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xx. 227 Keeping all in palpable ignorance to be drawen to dumb Idols.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. x. 240 The first and most palpable abuse is, the using of Words, without clear and distinct Ideas.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. xii. 34 Would you the Frowns of a Lady prevent, She too has this palpable Failing, The Perquisite softens her into Consent.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xiv. 440 Should'st thou invent Palpable falsehoods?

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. ii. 23 Of offense I hope there is none to either party: of defense I make none—by God's good mercy, having committed no palpable sin, since last entreating his pardoning grace.

1890 H. James Tragic Muse I. iv. 67 They must have constituted the most palpable part of her heritage.

1909 J. London South of Slot in Sat. Evening Post 22 May 3/2 He essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers. It was palpable malingering.

2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) vi. 203 I was forced to confront the palpable fact that something of me existed outwith myself.

†B. adv.

= palpably adv. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adverb]

palpablya1456

palpable1585

tangibly1847

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb] > clearly visible

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palpablya1456

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expressive1718

1585 J. Stell in T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie Ep. Ded. To exclude olde men..[is] palpable erronious.

1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 83 Those who..see them daily with our eyes,..yea..feele them palpable with our hands.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	palpable
释义	palpableadj.adv. Brit. /ˈpalpəbl/, U.S. /ˈpælpəb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English–1500s palpabil, Middle English– palpable, 1500s palpyble, 1600s palbable; also Scottish pre-1700 palpabill. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French palpable; Latin palpabilis. Etymology: < (i) Middle French palpable that may be touched (c1365; from 15th cent. in figurative uses; French palpable ), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin palpabilis that may be touched (Vetus Latina), easily perceptible, sufficiently obvious (from a1215 in British sources) < classical Latin palpāre palp v.¹ + -bilis -ble suffix.With sense A. 2 compare post-classical Latin ‘Tenebrae tam densae ut palpari queant’, ‘darkness which may be felt’ (Vulgate: Exodus 10:21). A. adj. 1. a. That may be touched, felt, or handled; perceptible by the sense of touch; tangible. palpable hit n. a solid blow, a forceful hit to the body; now chiefly figurative, and so passing into senses A. 3 and A. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adjective] touchablec1384 treatablec1384 palpable1395 gropable14.. maniable1483 tangible1589 tactable1611 tactile1615 Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 40 (MED) The sacrament of the auteer..is whight and round, visible and palpable. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xix. 235 (MED) As þre persones palpable is pureliche bote o man-kynde..So is god godes sone in þre persones þe trinite. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6778 To þe eye as it [sc. a tree] was visible... To mannys hond so it was palpable. 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes vii. f. xxxix^v The Sacrament, signifieth and representeth the same visible, mortall, and palpable bodye of Christe vpon the crosse. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 232 A hit, a most palpable hit. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi. 371 Spirits..are therefore really Bodies; though that name in common Speech be given to such Bodies onely, as are visible, or palpable. 1712 tr. H. More Scholia Antidote Atheism 173 in H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 4) The Devil would so manage himself by the motion..of his body, which by this Systaltick power he could make tangible and palpable. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 73 The different dimensions of them..palpable to the touch, and visible to the eye. 1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 316 Irish superstition makes the Phooka palpable to the touch. To its agency the peasantry usually ascribe accidental falls. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 The stones were palpable enough, carried down by the cataract. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 240 I like what one touches, what one tastes. I like rain when it has turned to snow and become palpable. 1990 N. Baker Room Temperature v. 35 The best thing about it was what it shared with all babies' noses: not the gargoylian turn of its wings..nor the palpable bump at the bridge. b. Medicine. Perceptible by palpation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [adjective] > examination by touch manipulatory1827 palpatory1875 palpating1887 palpable1897 manipulated1899 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 769 The spleen was not palpable. 1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xxiii. 295 Even when peristalsis is not visible, it may be palpable; if the hand is kept flat upon the abdomen the underlying coil may be felt to harden and soften alternately. 1974 Nature 22 Mar. 344/2 At 72 and 96 h the lesions were smaller but still palpable. 1987 S. Sandler Osteopathy iv. 53 Palpation forms a major part of the osteopath's examination, because osteopaths believe that the palpable change in a tissue can affect the way that tissue functions. 2. Of darkness, mist, heat, etc.: so extreme or intense as to seem almost tangible. In later use also of a feeling or an emotional atmosphere. ΚΠ ?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 136 (MED) No þing abidiþ to vs but..dercknesse palpable, þat is, so þick þat it may be gropid. c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 4379 (MED) There shalle be..ferefulst derknesse palpable. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 12 Uenus enshrowds theym with a thick fog palpabil ayrye. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xxxii. 375 There chanced to be a foggie mist, which continued a good part of the day, so thick and palpable, as men could not see before them. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 406 Who shall..through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way..? View more context for this quotation a1703 J. Pomfret Dies Novissima in Poems (1790) 139 Now bolder fires appear, And o'er the palpable obscurement sport, Glaring and gay as falling Lucifer. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 91 For two whole hours, a palpable darkness prevailed. 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol i. 5 Candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxvii. 81 Her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxix. 431 It was very cold, and the darkness was palpable. 1995 Times 23 May 14/3 The volatile chemistry between the two CBS anchorfolk was palpable every night as they sat, uncomfortably, side by side. 3. Readily perceptible by a sense other than touch; plainly observable; noticeable. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible senec1175 well seenc1175 naked?c1225 well isenec1275 bremec1340 evidenta1382 apparent1393 palpable?1435 open1478 pointablea1555 faira1568 full-eyed1581 unmasked1590 eyeful?1611 plain1613 prospecta1640 unovercloudeda1658 intuitive1801 unmystified1822 shroudless1841 unforeshortened1846 trenchant1849 focusable1889 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > cognizable by the senses or phenomenal palpable?1435 comprehensible1579 tractable1605 tangible1620 sensitive1686 phenomenic1808 phenomenal1825 ?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 644 (MED) The roote y-take palpable to the siht, Conveyed by lynes be kyngis off grete prys. c1450 Contin. Lydgate's Secrees (Sloane 2464) 2568 Evident toknys and signes palpable Of a fool. a1500 (c1445) J. Lydgate Miracles St. Edmund 169 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 4402/2 (MED) God hath mervaylles wrought..Palpable exaumple in stoory men may se. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. G.i These..palpable odors, fumes, vapours..ascending to the braine. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Jan. (1970) I. 9 Dinner..was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 82 [Eyes of spiders] which indeed are so palpable that they are clearly to be seen by any man that wants not his own. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. vi. 236 What is dancing..but the harmony of motion rendered more palpable? 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxiii. 601 Soon that peculiar odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living sperm whale, was palpable to all the watch. 1880 M. E. Braddon Barbara II. x. 205 ‘Head's very hot,’ said the surgeon, a fact also painfully palpable to the patient. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 279/2 A bit of brilliant colour in a bonnet..has a certain degree of aesthetic value..palpable to the trained eye. 1985 J. Morris Last Lett. from Hav i. 17 A palpable smell of eggs haunted the apartment. 4. Of a fact, idea, quality, characteristic, etc.: easily perceived by the mind; manifest, obvious, clear.Frequently in pejorative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] sutelc897 openeOE ebera975 graithc1325 broadc1374 plainc1375 clearc1380 grossc1380 manifest1385 notoire1409 patent1508 sensible?1531 discovered1537 plain as a pikestaff (also packstaff, pad-staff)1542 palpable1545 demonstrative1552 plain as the nose on (in) one's face1560 illustrate1562 appearing1566 notorious1581 obvious1583 unshadowed1593 transparent1597 liquid1610 visible1614 pellucid1644 illustrious1654 apertive1661 conspectable1727 suggestive1806 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (iv.) f. 61^v In stormes and derkenes of errours more palpable then in the seruitute of egypt. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 164 Opinions of palpable idolatrie. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xx. 227 Keeping all in palpable ignorance to be drawen to dumb Idols. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. x. 240 The first and most palpable abuse is, the using of Words, without clear and distinct Ideas. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. xii. 34 Would you the Frowns of a Lady prevent, She too has this palpable Failing, The Perquisite softens her into Consent. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xiv. 440 Should'st thou invent Palpable falsehoods? 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. ii. 23 Of offense I hope there is none to either party: of defense I make none—by God's good mercy, having committed no palpable sin, since last entreating his pardoning grace. 1890 H. James Tragic Muse I. iv. 67 They must have constituted the most palpable part of her heritage. 1909 J. London South of Slot in Sat. Evening Post 22 May 3/2 He essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers. It was palpable malingering. 2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) vi. 203 I was forced to confront the palpable fact that something of me existed outwith myself. †B. adv. = palpably adv. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adverb] palpablya1456 palpable1585 tangibly1847 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb] > clearly visible evidentlya1382 apparentlya1400 palpablya1456 redelyc1460 redly1513 palpable1585 expressive1718 1585 J. Stell in T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie Ep. Ded. To exclude olde men..[is] palpable erronious. 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 83 Those who..see them daily with our eyes,..yea..feele them palpable with our hands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.1395
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