referabilityn.

1850 J. E. Tennent Christianity in Ceylon v. 244 The argument of the referability of the earliest of these changes to some pre-existent cause, is evaded by the sophism of the action of the circle..which presents neither end nor beginning.

1891 Old & New Test. Student 13 76 Meanwhile this article may be concluded by advocating the referability..of all religious doctrine, polity, and conduct to some explicit or implicit priniciple of Scripture.

1936 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 1 82 The most important single criterion of distinction between measurement and rating is the ultimate referability of measurement back to a counting process which can be carried on by more than one person.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics vi. 233 Non-favourite sentences of class I have no such referability to a longer sentence in which they may be incorporated.

1973 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 23 200 If the question of property rights is to be decided irrespective of referrability to any inferred agreement between the spouses.

1996 C. Scott Advantages & Disadvantages Ethics & Politics v. 81 We live in interpretations that refer back to themselves by the signifiers, markers, and normal meanings that provide place, use, referability, and community.