单词 | suppressable |
释义 | suppressableadj. rare before mid-nineteenth cent. = suppressible adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > able to be subdued or subjugated suppressable1609 subduable1611 subjicible1638 suppressible1753 1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. B2 When age beganne to tame, that neuer otherwise suppressable, indomitam iuuentutem. 1866 H. Beigel On Inhalation xii. 137 Pulse rather accelerated..feeble, easily suppressable by pressure of the finger. 1897 Hutchinson (Kansas) Daily News 4 Sept. 3/2 A young man never knows how much he owes to the respectablilty [sic] of his parents, until he does something of a suppressable nature. 1928 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 2 209 It would hardly seem to have had sufficient legal status to be suppressable. 1992 G. Gunn Thinking across Amer. Grain ii. vi. 130 Force, power, and energy..figure as elements only intermittently suppressable..in Willa Cather's novels of the Nebraska prairies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1609 |
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