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单词 captable
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captableadj.

Apparently an error for captival adj., arising by confusion with Latin captābilis ( < captāre to catch at: see captate v.). N.E.D. (1888) gives the following example from a 19th-cent. edition of Ellistone (for the reading of the edition of 1649 see captival adj.):
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > [adjective] > caught or captured > cannot be caught > can be caught
catchablea1695
capturable1865
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1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. (1886) 12 Our precious life..lying captable to both [i.e. heaven and hell].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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