单词 | suppliable |
释义 | suppliableadj.1 Capable of being supplied (in various senses); esp. that can be provided or provided for. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > that is provided > able to be suppliable1583 the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [adjective] > making a substitute suppliable1583 substituting1634 substitutable1805 1583 J. Harvey Astrol. Addition sig. C7v Whether the disease be curable and suppliable by medicine, or whether yt patient be destitute of hope. 1655 J. Sergeant Schism Dis-arm'd ii. iv. 136 The Ordination of them, by others, I have already shewn, not to prejudice the Universal Authority of the Head of the Church; whose duty it is not to descend to otherwise suppliable actions, about particular Members of that Body. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 23 If suppliable elsewhere, yet with more charge. 1681 Acts Parl. Scot., Chas. II (1820) VIII. 243/1 That all such writes..wherin the Writer & witnesses are not designed, shall be null, And are not supplyable by condescending upon the Writer. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. i. 10 Where statutes establish certain solemnities as requisite to deeds, such solemnities are not suppliable by equipollents. 1871 A. F. P. Harcourt Himalayan Districts of Kooloo, Lahoul, & Spiti xi. 281 Lists have..been made out of all the stages in Koolgo, Lahoul, and most of those in Spiti, with the rates of porterage attached; the complement for each stage suppliable from each kothee was fixed, and the following rules for begar were sanctioned. 1918 A. W. Calhoun Social Hist. Amer. Family II. ii. 32 The mischief that some moralists attribute to novels is due to their exaggeration of the omnipotence of love (with the inference suppliable that licentiousness is justified thereby). 1986 J. Bruce-Gardyne Ministers & Mandarins x. 169 Turning a remote bunch of islands in the South Atlantic into a suppliable fortress. 2002 B. Orend Human Rights iv. 124 Only genuinely needed and valuable goods, suppliable at affordable cost, will win their way through to widespread acceptance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † suppliableadj.2 Obsolete. rare. Supple, flexible. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] tougha700 lithyc1000 softc1330 weak?a1366 plianta1382 persha1398 plyinga1398 lithec1400 supplec1400 plicable?a1425 curvable?1440 lethec1440 scretec1440 pliablec1475 bowable1483 bowing1483 waldinc1485 supple1513 flexible1548 limber1565 lither1565 bending1567 osier1577 wiry1588 buxom1590 withy1598 suppliable1599 renderingc1600 fluxible1607 winding1609 bendable1611 flippant1622 flexive1629 flexile1633 maniable1633 compliant1667 flectible1705 limp1706 yieldy1757 complying1774 limberly1782 willowy1791 switchy1810 wandy1825 twistable1853 bendsome1861 whippy1867 swack1868 bendy1873 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 114/2 He causeth the sayede Image, to be overdeckede with an Oxehyde..&..glueth on the sayede skinne a suppliable Dogges skinne [Ger. einer Hundshaut die lind ist]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < |
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