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producible, a.|prəʊˈdjuːsɪb(ə)l|
Also -eable.
[In form producible, ad. late L. prōdūcibil-is (Jerome), f. prōdūcĕre to produce: see -ible; in form produceable from produce v. + -able.]
1. Capable of being produced, brought forward, or presented to the eye or mind; adducible; procurable, obtainable, available.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. iii. (1642) 214 There were copies produceable, which were elder, and written before the Incarnation. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. viii. 381 They are not in themselves of a producible nature. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 91 They are considered as public records, and are only producible in the courts of justice. 1834Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 289 The greatest amount of produceable knowledge. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. iv. 407 No producible recollections remain of that early period.
2. Fit to be produced or introduced; presentable.
1802Syd. Smith Dr. Parr Wks. 1867 I. 5 The courtly phrase was, that Dr. Parr was not a producible man. 1817Earl of Dudley Lett. 24 Dec., He will never be able to turn him out a producible Emperor. 1894Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 5/1 ‘The Vote Catchers’ was written by the plaintiff, and if this had been producible nothing would have been heard about the non-production of the burlesque.
3. That can be produced or extended in length.
a1696Scarburgh Euclid (1705) 31 They are producible infinitely both ways.
4. That may be caused or brought about; capable of being brought into being, generated, or made.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. ii, To suppose it producible or possible to be effected. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 31 Such as are in themselves produceable by nature, but not in such an order. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. xi. 431 Mr. Boyle..became solicitous to know whether a fluid of so great importance [air] was not producible by art. 1828Examiner 44/2 Tears..produceable by the pathetics of Mrs. West. 1890Spectator 10 May, There will be no labour millennium, wealth being no more producible without painful toil than any other crop is. |