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dividable, a.|dɪˈvaɪdəb(ə)l|
[f. divide v. + -able.]
1. Capable of being divided; divisible.
1587Golding De Mornay vi. 72 God..is one in himselfe, and in no part diuidable. 1628Coke On Litt. i. 386 b, Lands in the County of Kent, that are called Gauelkinde, which lands are diuidable betweene the brothers. a1774Z. Pearce Serm. (1779) I. ii. (R.), To make them hard and not easily dividable. 1890Illustr. Lond. News 20 Sept. 363/3 All that comrades had..was equally dividable.
†2. Having the function of dividing. Obs.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 105 Peacefull Commerce from dividable shores.
Hence diˈvidableness, divisibility.
1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 36 Denying the dividableness of Mercury. |