| 释义 |
inˈventible, -able, a. rare.
[f. invent v. + -ible, -able. The form in -ible is on L. analogy from invent-, ppl. stem of invenīre.]
Capable of being invented.
1641Ld. J. Digby Sp. Trienn. Parl. 13 There can be no cause colourably inventable, wherunto to attribute them. 1650A. B. Mutat. Polemo 7 Which our party did assay by all inventible means to bring him to. 1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. lxvii. (T.), When first I gave my thoughts to make guns shoot often, I thought there had been but one only exquisite way inventible. 1892Chicago Advance 14 Jan., If only there were invented, or inventible, some sort of ‘Keeley-cure’.
Hence inˈventibleness (Craig, 1847). |