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traceable, a.|ˈtreɪsəb(ə)l|
[f. trace v.1 + -able.]
Capable of being traced (in various senses of the vb.).
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. ix. 65 Lest we should be traceable by her direction. 1793Rennell in Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 184 The gulf stream..is discharged with such velocity, through the Straits of Bahama, that its motion is traceable through the Atlantic, to the Bank of Newfoundland. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxii. (ed. 2) 423 If attraction be..a primordial property of matter, not dependent upon, or traceable to, any other material cause. 1854W. Osburn Mon. Hist. Egypt II. ii. 55 Fragments on which the remains of hieroglyphics were yet traceable. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. viii. (1879) 372 In her family a very characteristic type of handwriting is traceable through five generations.
Hence traceaˈbility, ˈtraceableness, the quality of being traceable; ˈtraceably adv., in a manner or degree that can be traced.
1847Webster, Traceableness. 1855Tait's Mag. XXII. 97 Slightly monotonous, and traceably imitative too, this young melodist yet runs his fingers over the strings with a..power that instantly make[s] him a marked man. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 16 There is, recognizably and traceably, a time when..many of our words came into use. 1891Cent. Dict., Traceability. 1896Law Times C. 436/2 The doctrine of following trust money depends upon its traceability. |