sayableadj.n.

1674 W. Penn Just Rebuke 6 Our Principles, are not so laid down by any one of us, nor, say we, sayable by any of us upon our real Principles.

1697 G. Whitehead Sober Expostulation against F. Bugg iv. 85 A very idle, silly, boasting Romance, and scurrilous piece of fictitious Forgery feigned upon me, and in my Name, and tho' never so said, nor sayable by me.

1709 T. Eccleston Remarks T. Andrews's Bk. 10 I have searched the Page quoted by thee, and it is not there..nor indeed is it sayable by our Principle.

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 104 What is suggested in times of play should be rightly sayable without toil.

1891 F. M. Wilson Primer on Browning 132 Browning has said all that was sayable concerning the celebrated cause.

1902 Month Nov. 463 To him, nothing is sayable which has already been said.

1988 W. Berry Remembering i. 21 He was haunted by things he might have said to Elton that would not be sayable again in this world.

2008 J. O'Neill Netherland (2009) 30 An awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that..nothing worth saying was sayable.

1937 Ess. & Stud. 22 136 The meanable crystallized and fixed in the sayable.

1989 G. Steiner Real Presences iii. vi. 218 Music puts our being as men and women in touch with that which transcends the sayable.

2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 18 Oct. 33 Probing the limits of the sayable shows we are free and alive and human.

1957 G. Ryle in C. A. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-cent. 264 It is the foreign relations, not the domestic constitutions of sayables that engender logical troubles and demand logical arbitration.

1969 J. S. Cunningham Powers that Be 3 Infant sayables Along the seamy permeable Undersides of words.

2006 J. Sellars Stoicism iii. 58 An assertible is a complete sayable, and we shall consider sayables in the next section.