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单词 suppliable
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suppliableadj.1

Brit. /səˈplʌɪəbl/, U.S. /səˈplaɪəb(ə)l/
Forms: 1500s– suppliable, 1600s supplieable (Scottish), 1600s–1700s (Scottish) (1800s– now nonstandard) supplyable.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: supply v.1, -able suffix.
Etymology: < supply v.1 + -able suffix.
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

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: supply v.3, -able suffix.
Etymology: < supply v.3 + -able suffix, probably after pliable adj.1In the quot., translating German lind soft, mild, gentle, supple, flexible (see lithe adj.).
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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