translatableadj.

1700 S. Grascome Script.-hist. Sabbath iii. 152 Neither do they consider that the Sabbath was so proper to the Jews, that it was not translatable from them to the Christians, and to the Lord's Day.

1782 Lett. Late Ld. Lyttelton II. xlviii. 142 It is shady, elegant, convenient, luxurious, and snug; a term peculiar to English comfort, and not translatable into any other language.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 60 Modes of expression scarcely translatable into the only technical language in which that mind is wont to think.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 182 What is really best in any book is translatable.

1959 E. M. Grabbe et al. Handbk. Automation, Computation, & Control II. ii. 186 A class of languages that will be easily translatable by machine from one to another.

2010 D. Mitchell 1,000 Autumns Jacob de Voet (2011) i. 71 Its Latin name is miserere mei, translatable as ‘Lord have mercy’.

1792 C. Lofft Let. 22 Apr. in C. Wyvill Polit. Papers (1802) V. iii. i. 92 Though the translatability of Bishops be, as I apprehend, an abuse in the Ecclesiastical, and a dangerous inconvenience in the Civil Frame.

1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 115 To carry on his cogitations for him, with their accustomed wondrous translatability by the imagination.

1911 P. Mauro in Fundamentals V. 31 The Translatability of Scripture.

2000 Speculum 75 159 Tracing medieval quarrels over translatability and literality, Kelly tends to see conflicting notions of the translator's pastoral responsibility.

1856 W. Landels Desire of all Nations 21 I shall not attempt to show to what this translatableness is chiefly owing—how much of it is attributable to the primitive character of the Hebrew language.

1957 Kenyon Rev. 19 297 The translatableness of an author is the test of his greatness.

2011 A. McFarland & E. L. Towns 10 Questions iv. 67 Many linguists have pointed out that the ‘translatableness’ of the Bible is another indication that it is a unique book whose author is God.