realizableadj.

1791 in Minutes Evid. taken Trial Warren Hastings V. (1788–95) 2285 Admitting the Penalty to be realizable in every Case..how will the Account ultimately stand.

1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 254 He is establishing a property realisable only by his death.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xli. 379 Warmth..was realizable and apparent.

1881 G. Allen Vignettes from Nature ix. 88 A hopeful progress towards a..realisable Paradise in the future.

1920 Conquest Apr. 258/1 A scientific possibility is not always realisable from a commercial point of view.

1950 W. J. Moore Physical Chem. i. 22 Reversible processes are never realizable in actuality since they must be carried out infinitely slowly.

1994 Accountancy Sept. 97/2 Estimated net realisable value is based on independent professional advice assuming an orderly disposal of fully-let property over a period of up to three years.

1886 Manch. Examiner 10 Feb. 3/3 All the little details which give charm and realisableness to biography.

1945 A. Huxley Perennial Philos. (1946) xii. 220 The philosophy which affirms the existence and the immediate realizableness of eternity is related to one kind of political theory and practice.

1885 Manch. Examiner 18 Mar. 3/3 Its persons and its situations alike are well and realisably conceived.

1955 20th Cent. Lit. 1 158 A realizably noble man consecrating himself to the expiation of the curses of the South.

1996 Amer. Lit. 68 249 Kessler's selections highlight the ‘realizably utopian’ nature of Gilman's pragmatic social vision.

1863 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 5 It is certainly, the promptitude, and the realizability of punishment that deter from crime.

1926 E. C. Lindeman Meaning of Adult Educ. x. 181 The wish, its incidence, its validity, its realizability and its integrity.

1992 P. Woolley tr. M. Eigen Steps towards Life (1996) i. iv. 13 It is not just a question of the absolute number of symbols and the total number of alternative arrangements, but also one of the average realizability of the alternatives.