repairableadj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈpɛːrəbl/, U.S.

/rəˈpɛrəb(ə)l/,

/riˈpɛrəb(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s repayrable, 1500s repaireable, 1600s– repairable.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps originally modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: repair v.², -able suffix.

Etymology: < repair v.² + -able suffix, originally after Middle French reparable or its etymon classical Latin reparābilis reparable adj. Compare later reparable adj.

a. Of an undesirable condition or situation: capable of being remedied or put right; rectifiable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > put right or amended > able to be > specifically of faults or weaknesses

repairable1489

correctablea1661

corrigible1673

correctible1889

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. i. 9 Ther is no faulte made in ony caas lasse repayrable than that whiche is executed by armes.

1618 J. Brinsley tr. Ovid Metamorphosis i. vii. 63/3 Oh Themis tell vs by what deuice the losse of our kinde..is repairable.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. ci If a new greater breach came, perhaps it would not be repairable.

1723 Spectator (ed. 6) VIII. 221 The tincture of my skin, and the regularity of my features..are irrecoverable; yet do not despair, but that loss, by your assistance, may in some measure be repairable.

1761 T. Newburgh Particulars Life & Char. Brockhill Newburgh 27 He was always too justly sensible of the loss [of his wife], to think it repairable.

1841 W. H. Humphreys Rep. Supreme Court Tennessee 1 248 We have a case where..the injury suffered was in its nature and under the circumstances repairable, but not in fact repaired.

1865 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 28 475 That large class of human evils which are repairable as well as preventable—evils affecting not life, but property.

1946 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 5 437 Much of the damage [to German industry] was repairable and considerable plant capacity could have been put back in working conditions within a relatively short period of time.

1984 C. Kightly Country Voices iv. 101 ‘It's deed,’ she said, ‘and thoo nivver saw sike a set..as she'd makkin' in thee life—Lord, it's a repairable loss!’ That's what they thought of losing babies, ‘a repairable loss’.

2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 20 July 9 At the moment the situation is repairable, but if Downing Street doesn't get a grip it will spiral.

b. Capable of being restored to good or proper condition; restorable; fixable. Also: that may be healed; curable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restored > able to be

restorable1557

repairable1561

recoverablea1599

reducible1646

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired

reparable1555

repairable1561

fashionable1607

mendable1638

1561 H. Becher tr. Vocation & Callyng All Nations ii. ii. sig. M(iii) Euery thinge that is repayrable, is not repayred: nor euery thinge that is curable, made hole. For it commeth of nature to be repayrable and curable, but to be repayred and cured, is of grace.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Riparabile That may be repaired,..repaireable.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §58 The parts in Mans body easily repairable (as Spirits, Blood, and Flesh) die in the embracement of the parts hardly repairable, (as Bones, Nerves, and Membranes).

1653 T. Blake Vindiciæ Foederis xxxi. 230 These foundation-breaches in buildings may be either crazes threatning danger, but repairable.

1741 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. (ed. 2) II. 362 No more than 10 [vessels] were to be seen after the Hurricane, and of these ten but five or six were repairable.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 9 Part of the nave also being found repairable.

1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 84 I will write to the Military Board, and recommend that I may be permitted to issue to Purneal 1000 stand of the repairable arms.

1805 Ld. Collingwood in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 272 Not more than three [ships] are in a repairable state.

1899 R. G. Marsden Digest Cases Shipping xii. 1299 If the ship was likely to be repairable,..it cannot be treated as a total loss.

1936 Times 2 Apr. 10/3 Repairable cottages of amenity value..could be acquired and sympathetically repaired by the local authorities.

1950 ‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley vi. 65 She looked as if she had had a rugged night of it; but she was easily repairable and still a dilly.

1999 J. A. Zollars & P. Ruppelt in R. L. Leavitt Cross-cultural Rehabilit. xi. 131 Technology, high or low cost, is useless unless it..is safe, durable, and repairable.

2. Chiefly Law. With by. Denoting a highway, bridge, etc., which a specified person or authority is liable to keep in repair, or which is repaired at the expense of a specified person or group of people.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired > falling to be repaired by a person or authority

repairablea1634

reparable1830

a1634 E. Coke 12th Pt. Rep. (1656) 30 If a Bridge or a High-way is repairable by the Subject, and is in decay, the pardon of the King shall not excuse him which ought to do it.

1752 Bill for Widening, Amending, & Repairing Road from Combebridge 29 That same Way and Road should, at all times..be repaired and repairable by the publick Statute-labour.

1821 R. V. Barnewall & E. H. Alderson Rep. Cases King's Bench 4 Index 716/2 [A township's] inhabitants had been immemorially used to repair all roads situate within it, which, but for such usage, would be repairable by the parish at large.

1856 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 21 Nov. 6/4 Where a road has been made which is not repairable by the parish, it may become a nuisance.

1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 143 The street was a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large.

1938 Mod. Law Rev. 2 182 The term ‘highway’ includes squares and other open spaces repairable by the local authority.

2005 C. Foster Tripping & Slipping Cases (ed. 4) ii. 24 Paths for pedestrians running by the sides of roads and forming part of them..are repairable by the body or person liable to repair the road.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	repairable
释义	repairableadj. Brit. /rᵻˈpɛːrəbl/, U.S. /rəˈpɛrəb(ə)l/, /riˈpɛrəb(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s repayrable, 1500s repaireable, 1600s– repairable. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps originally modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: repair v.², -able suffix. Etymology: < repair v.² + -able suffix, originally after Middle French reparable or its etymon classical Latin reparābilis reparable adj. Compare later reparable adj. 1. a. Of an undesirable condition or situation: capable of being remedied or put right; rectifiable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > put right or amended > able to be > specifically of faults or weaknesses repairable1489 correctablea1661 corrigible1673 correctible1889 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. i. 9 Ther is no faulte made in ony caas lasse repayrable than that whiche is executed by armes. 1618 J. Brinsley tr. Ovid Metamorphosis i. vii. 63/3 Oh Themis tell vs by what deuice the losse of our kinde..is repairable. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. ci If a new greater breach came, perhaps it would not be repairable. 1723 Spectator (ed. 6) VIII. 221 The tincture of my skin, and the regularity of my features..are irrecoverable; yet do not despair, but that loss, by your assistance, may in some measure be repairable. 1761 T. Newburgh Particulars Life & Char. Brockhill Newburgh 27 He was always too justly sensible of the loss [of his wife], to think it repairable. 1841 W. H. Humphreys Rep. Supreme Court Tennessee 1 248 We have a case where..the injury suffered was in its nature and under the circumstances repairable, but not in fact repaired. 1865 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 28 475 That large class of human evils which are repairable as well as preventable—evils affecting not life, but property. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 5 437 Much of the damage [to German industry] was repairable and considerable plant capacity could have been put back in working conditions within a relatively short period of time. 1984 C. Kightly Country Voices iv. 101 ‘It's deed,’ she said, ‘and thoo nivver saw sike a set..as she'd makkin' in thee life—Lord, it's a repairable loss!’ That's what they thought of losing babies, ‘a repairable loss’. 2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 20 July 9 At the moment the situation is repairable, but if Downing Street doesn't get a grip it will spiral. b. Capable of being restored to good or proper condition; restorable; fixable. Also: that may be healed; curable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restored > able to be restorable1557 repairable1561 recoverablea1599 reducible1646 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired reparable1555 repairable1561 fashionable1607 mendable1638 1561 H. Becher tr. Vocation & Callyng All Nations ii. ii. sig. M(iii) Euery thinge that is repayrable, is not repayred: nor euery thinge that is curable, made hole. For it commeth of nature to be repayrable and curable, but to be repayred and cured, is of grace. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Riparabile That may be repaired,..repaireable. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §58 The parts in Mans body easily repairable (as Spirits, Blood, and Flesh) die in the embracement of the parts hardly repairable, (as Bones, Nerves, and Membranes). 1653 T. Blake Vindiciæ Foederis xxxi. 230 These foundation-breaches in buildings may be either crazes threatning danger, but repairable. 1741 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. (ed. 2) II. 362 No more than 10 [vessels] were to be seen after the Hurricane, and of these ten but five or six were repairable. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 9 Part of the nave also being found repairable. 1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 84 I will write to the Military Board, and recommend that I may be permitted to issue to Purneal 1000 stand of the repairable arms. 1805 Ld. Collingwood in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 272 Not more than three [ships] are in a repairable state. 1899 R. G. Marsden Digest Cases Shipping xii. 1299 If the ship was likely to be repairable,..it cannot be treated as a total loss. 1936 Times 2 Apr. 10/3 Repairable cottages of amenity value..could be acquired and sympathetically repaired by the local authorities. 1950 ‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley vi. 65 She looked as if she had had a rugged night of it; but she was easily repairable and still a dilly. 1999 J. A. Zollars & P. Ruppelt in R. L. Leavitt Cross-cultural Rehabilit. xi. 131 Technology, high or low cost, is useless unless it..is safe, durable, and repairable. 2. Chiefly Law. With by. Denoting a highway, bridge, etc., which a specified person or authority is liable to keep in repair, or which is repaired at the expense of a specified person or group of people. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired > falling to be repaired by a person or authority repairablea1634 reparable1830 a1634 E. Coke 12th Pt. Rep. (1656) 30 If a Bridge or a High-way is repairable by the Subject, and is in decay, the pardon of the King shall not excuse him which ought to do it. 1752 Bill for Widening, Amending, & Repairing Road from Combebridge 29 That same Way and Road should, at all times..be repaired and repairable by the publick Statute-labour. 1821 R. V. Barnewall & E. H. Alderson Rep. Cases King's Bench 4 Index 716/2 [A township's] inhabitants had been immemorially used to repair all roads situate within it, which, but for such usage, would be repairable by the parish at large. 1856 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 21 Nov. 6/4 Where a road has been made which is not repairable by the parish, it may become a nuisance. 1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 143 The street was a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large. 1938 Mod. Law Rev. 2 182 The term ‘highway’ includes squares and other open spaces repairable by the local authority. 2005 C. Foster Tripping & Slipping Cases (ed. 4) ii. 24 Paths for pedestrians running by the sides of roads and forming part of them..are repairable by the body or person liable to repair the road. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1489
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