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extinguishable, a.|ɛkˈstɪŋgwɪʃəb(ə)l|
Also 6 extinguyssible.
[f. prec. + -able.]
Able to be extinguished (in senses of the vb.).
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. vi. iii, Who that walketh the waye of derkenes..shall have payne nothyng extinguyssible. 1667in Phil. Trans. II. 609 The light of the former is readily extinguishable by Compression. 1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1832Lewis Use & Ab. Pol. Terms iii. 31 Not extinguishable by any law. 1886Law Times LXXX. 213/2 Insect life is not extinguishable by scrubbing. |