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单词 feasible
释义 feasible, a.|ˈfiːzɪb(ə)l|
Forms: 5 faysyble, fesable, 6 fays-, feac-(7 feice-)able, 6–7 faisable, fesible, 7 fac-, fæs-, fa(i)s-, fe(a)cible, feizable, -ible, foisible, 7–8 feas(e)-, feazable, -ible, 7– feasible.
[a. OF. faisable, -ible, f. fais- impf. stem of faire (:—L. facĕre) to do: see -ble.]
1. Of a design, project, etc.: Capable of being done, accomplished or carried out; possible, practicable.
c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. ix, Such an enterprise is the more feseable.1587Raleigh Let. to Ld. Burghley in N. & Q. (1864) V. 207 The matter and service will be very fesible.1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 63 To an infinite power all things are equally faisable.a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 114 It is..a very feasible matter for [England]..to gain the Universal Trade of the whole Commercial World.1787F. Burney Diary Dec., This seemed a most feasible way of producing some variety in our intercourse.1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. iv. (1869) 89 The mind..runs back to what was so..feasible at one time.1875J. H. Bennet Winter Medit. i. vii. 200 We are so ready..as a nation, to go to any feasible expense to obtain what we want.
absol.1874Morley Compromise (1886) 111 It is the natural product of the political spirit, which is incessantly thinking of..the immediately feasible.
2. Of things in general, also of persons: Capable of being dealt with successfully in any way, either in a material or immaterial sense.
Cf. Sc.Feasible, neat, tidy. Roxb.’ (Jam.)
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. 122 Paris..not being fesible, he retires into Britaine to refresh his Armie.1614Bp. R. Montagu Gagg To Rdr. 3 [I] am like enough to draw you my Parishioners with me, at least to make you more feasable, then otherwise you would be.1624Let. 22 Nov., in Bp. Cosin's Corresp. (1869) I. 27 Yet is it [the living] feisable for a good exchaunge.1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 48, I know all Lands are not so Fecible as others are.1727Bradley Fam. Dict., Corn-Setting Engine, a very easy and most feasible Instrument.1839James Louis XIV, II. 87 The whole place was so feasible.1856Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 307, I should so like a Scotch⁓woman, if I could get any feasible Scotchwoman.1866MacGregor 1000 Miles in Rob Roy Canoe 5 The difficulty was to find..what rivers were at once feasible to paddle on and pretty to see.1889E. C. Dowson Let. 3 Feb. (1967) 33, I have suggested Swinburne & Pater, Lang, Oscar Wilde & Lady Dilke as the most feasible.
3. Of a proposition, theory, story, etc.: Likely, probable.
Hardly a justifiable sense etymologically, and (probably for that reason) recognized by no Dict., though supported by considerable literary authority.
1656Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 323 A proposition uttered, to the end to have it..examined whether it be true or not true, faisable or not faisable.1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle 57 Now Mirza kept the Key of the Gate, so that my Story was feazable enough.1767H. Brooke Fool of Qual. xvii, ‘As you say, James’, cried Mr. Fenton, ‘this account seems pretty feasible’.1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 105 The only feasible theory..that has yet been proposed.1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith v. i. §2. 277 There might be some feasible doubts as to whether [etc].1865Livingstone Zambesi v. 129 It seems feasible that a legitimate..trade might take the place of the present unlawful traffic.
4. As n. in pl. Things feasible. Obs.
1661Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xii. 114 We conclude many things within the list of Impossibilities, which yet are easie Feasables.
Hence ˈfeasibly adv., in a feasible manner; ˈfeasibleness, the quality or fact of being feasible, feasibility.
1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 86 Improve it by Floating, which may very Feazibly be done according to the direction of the fourth..Chapter.1722Collier Ess. (1725) IV. 331 They have made the Project look feasibly, and contriv'd Ways and Means to prevent Discovery.1633T. James Voy. 107 The faiseablenesse of the Action intended.1736Carte Ormonde II. 177 The feasableness of the offers which had been made of seizing Glocester.1860Holland Miss Gilbert i, A demonstration of the feasibleness of infant instruction.
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