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▪ I. gainable, a.1|ˈgeɪnəb(ə)l|
Also 7 gaineable.
[f. gain v.2 + -able; cf. F. gaignable, gagnable.]
Attainable, capable of being gained or won over.
1611Cotgr., Gaignable, gettable, winnable, gaineable. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals iii. iii. 327 With paper in hand, [they] reckon'd up as many gainable persons, as made up their number. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iv, Summon the National Assembly to follow you, summon what of it is Royalist, Constitutional, gainable by money; dissolve the rest. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. x. §22. 147 Greatness in art..is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
▪ II. † gainable, a.2 Obs. rare.
Also 7–9 Hist. wainable.
[a. OF. gaignable, f. gaignier (see gain v.1) in the early sense to till, cultivate: see gain v.3]
Of land: Cultivable.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xv. iv, Lenchayde was, of olde tyme, gaynable lond; now the see encloseth it. 1481― Godfrey xlv. (1893) 85 The londe is ful of..large mareyses in suche wyse that there is but lytil londe gaynable. |