单词 | scribable |
释义 | scribableadj. Suitable for or capable of being written on. In later use chiefly in technical contexts: suitable for or capable of being scribed or scored.rare and archaic in the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > [adjective] scrivablea1400 scribablea1500 a1500 Med. Recipes (Sloane 3153) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 182 Scribable [a1400 Royal scryuable; c1450 BL Add. 33996 Forme..þy magdaleones in newe wyt leþer or in good pauper]. c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 225 Thowgh all the erthe so wanne Were parchemyne smothe, whyte and scrybabyll. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxvi/1 Paper scribabil the bale vi. d'. 1889 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 412 One filled every scribable corner of his foolscap. 1915 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 20 Apr. 967/2 A scribable surface disposed within said casing, and a scribing element carried by the indicating arm. 1976 U.S. Geol. Surv. Professional Paper 1000 313/1 Continuous-tone imagery printed on a scribable film. 2014 U.S. Patent Applic. 2014/0310970 A1 1/1 Tape measure with integrated scribable and effaceable surface. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1500 |
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