单词 | placeable |
释义 | placeableadj. Capable of being or liable to be placed (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [adjective] > able to be placeable1550 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Bbiiv One and the same man placeable [L. localis] as touchyng that he was borne of man, whyche is god infinite as touchyng as yt he was begotten of the father. 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Bbiii How did he ascende vp into heauen, but that he is a veray man indede & placeable [L. localis]? 1710 J. Clendon Tractatus Philosophico-theologicus 20 A Mode is said by a Learned Man to be not properly a Being placeable under any Predicamental Head. 1721 R. Manning Case stated Church of Rome I. 253 A Sovereign Monarch is properly one, under whom all others in Emploiment are no more than Substitutes, or Vicars, placeable and displaceable at Pleasure. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iii. vii. 179 The privy seal being placeable and displaceable by the king. 1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. xix. 326 A large..dinner, involving for the most part..immensely announceable and hierarchically placeable couples. 1955 E. Bishop Cold Spring in Compl. Poems (1983) 55 The blurred redbud stood beside it, motionless, but almost more like movement than any placeable color. 2003 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. 68 Blanchett speaks in a beguiling tumble of words with an elegant, lightly accented voice that is not quite placeable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1550 |
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