单词 | statable |
释义 | statableadj. Capable of being stated (esp. in sense 9a of the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > spoken or uttered > able to be speakable1483 frameable1559 utterable1648 sayable1674 statable1796 the mind > language > statement > [adjective] > stated, declared, or set forth > able to be statable1796 1796 Minutes Court Martial, William Cornwallis 26 The Public has sustained no stateable Loss or Inconvenience. 1802 G. Canning in Earl Malmesbury's Diaries & Corr. (1844) IV. 117 I will..send you..one or two trifling alterations more, and will then state to you the statable reasons for this last change. 1859 C. Dickens Haunted House: Mortals in House in All Year Round Extra Christmas No.,13 Dec. 3/1 For all these reasons, and for others less easily and briefly statable, I find [etc.]. 1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxvi. 119 Those are the clearly stateable and memorable heads of expenditure. 1922 T. Veblen Instinct of Workmanship vi. 264 Through all this runs the concomitant requirement of quantivalence, statable in statistical form. 1981 Times 19 Jan. 10/6 The answer..lies not in any statable rules or formulas of the old facts/opinion kind. 2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Feb. 35/1 They wanted rules that generated sentences algorithmically, i.e., according to a set of precisely statable steps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1796 |
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