quenchableadj.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende F. Cclviii/2 Thou that arte called to the lyf perdurable To Ioye withoute faylyng..to lyght not quenchable to day not euenyng.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Amortissable, quenchable, stintable, dissolueable.

a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 8 If..it be a quenchable fire.

1668 Duchess of Newcastle Grounds Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) xii. xxiii. 207 But, being of such a mixt Nature, they are both apt to quench Bright Fire, as also, apt to burn or flame; so that such sorts are both Inflamable, and Quenchable.

1783 T. Allen & V. D. M. Granville Salvation for All Men 34 Make the fire quenchable, and the worm instantly ceases to knaw.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv*, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 137 Had we..thought that your..drought was quenchable.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. ix. 265 Fire itself is quenchable, yet only quenchable at first.

1869 J. R. Lowell Writings (1890) 54 Men burnt men for a doubtful point, As if the mind were quenchable with fire.

1924 M. Arlen Green Hat vi. 202 Iris had lit a flame, and the flames that Iris lit seemed quenchable only by death.

1964 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 52 1436 There is no obvious reason why the ice VII structure should not be quenchable at low enough temperature.

1989 Nature 30 Mar. 414/2 Corundum and stishovite are quenchable down to 1 bar pressure, yet are not present in our decompressed samples.

2003 USA Today (Nexis) 19 Mar. 4 d ABC has proved that the thirst for reality is, indeed, quenchable.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) Quenchableness, capableness of being quenched.

1971 Jrnl. Sci. Stud. Relig. 10 23 Wetness, quenchableness, refreshing..are just a few of the words necessary to describe water.