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generable, a.|ˈdʒɛnərəb(ə)l|
See also genderable.
[ad. L. generābilis that may produce or be produced, f. generāre: see generate v. and -able.]
1. That may be generated or produced (chiefly in phrase generable and corruptible).
[1398: see genderable.] c1450Henryson Test. Cres. 170 Juppiter..God of the starnis in the firmament And nureis to all thingis generabill. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. iv. (Arb.) 25 They [poets] were the first obseruers of all naturall causes and effects in the things generable and corruptible. 1628Jackson Creed vi. i. i. §1 If every particular man or body generable haue precedent causes of their beings, their whole generations must of necessity have some cause. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 196 The forms of particular worlds are generable and corruptible. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 262 For the generable and corruptible portion of the world is comprehended indeed by the lunar sphere. 1962S. R. Levin Ling. Struct. Poetry ii. 11 Many poetic sequences are generable by the kind of grammar constructed for ordinary language, but some are not.
†2. That may generate or produce. Obs. rare.
1633J. Fisher Fuimus Troes ii. vi. D iij, Thou Queene of Heauen..the source of generable moysture.
Hence generaˈbility, ˈgenerableness. rare.
1708H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 7 The World, from the Generability and Corruptibility of which he proves the Mortality of Humane Souls. 1727Bailey vol. II, Generableness, capableness of being generated. 1800J. Johnstone On Madness Pref. 7 The genealogy of the passions, the origin of ideas, and the generability of mind. |