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▪ I. dilatable, a.1|daɪˈleɪtəb(ə)l, dɪ-|
[f. dilate v. + -able. Cf. F. dilatable (Cotgr. 1611).]
Capable of being dilated, widened out, extended, or enlarged; expansible.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xi. v. (1620) 391 They will neither make God's essence dilatable nor limitable. a1691Boyle Hist. Air i. (1692) 1 That thin..compressible and dilatable Body in which we breath. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 28 Owls..have the pupil very dilatable. 1851Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. iii. v. 319 Of the several forms of natural bodies, gases and vapours are observed to be most dilatable.
Hence diˈlatableness.
1727Bailey vol. II., Dilatableness, capableness of being widened.
▪ II. † dilatable, a.2 Obs.,
erroneous f. delitable (also diletabil, dilitable, etc.).
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 57 A lyf þat may noght be chaungyd, a kyngdome ay lastand dilatable. |