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▪ I. † testable, a.1 Obs.|ˈtɛstəb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. testābilis that has a right to bear testimony (Gellius), f. testārī: see testate a.1 and n. and -able; cf. obs. F. testable capable of making a will (1514 in Godef.) from the same source.]
1. a. Legally qualified to bear witness. b. Legally able to make a will.
1611Cotgr., Testable, testable; that can make a Will; that may be deuised by Will. 1676R. Dixon Two Test. 25 A Deed solemnly testified by the Testimony..of Seven Testable Persons that are..worthy to be believed. 1721Bailey, Testable.., that by the Law may bear witness.
2. Devisable by will.
1693Stair Inst. Law Scot. iv. xlii. §21 A power of legating..the Deads part of Movables, which is..most ordinarily the third of Testable Movables. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xxxii. 494 Such of his goods as were testable.
▪ II. testable, a.2|ˈtɛstəb(ə)l|
[f. test v.2 + -able.]
That may be tested or tried; spec. in Philos. of Science, of a theory: capable of being empirically tested. (In quot. 1647 app. ‘That on being put to the test prove to be’.)
1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xii. 30 So are all testable indifferents, out of God's book of remembrance. Mal. iii. 17. 1922Glasgow Herald 14 Apr. 8 Japanese history does not become a record of testable facts until the fifth or sixth century A.D. 1945[see disconfirm v.]. 1959K. R. Popper Logic of Sci. Discovery vi. 112 Theories may be more, or less, severely testable; that is to say, more, or less, easily falsifiable. The degree of their testability is of significance for the selection of theories. 1968P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory i. 57 The two laws differ in their empirical nature in that the first is empirically testable whilst the second is not. 1973B. Magee Popper ii. 22 Scientific laws are testable in spite of being unprovable: they can be tested by systematic tests to refute them. |