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removable, a. (and n.)|rɪˈmuːvəb(ə)l| Forms: 6–7 remoueable, (6 -mooue-), 7–9 removeable; 6 remou-, 6– removable. See also remevable. [f. remove v. + -able.] 1. Subject to removal from an office, jurisdiction, holding, etc.
1534Act 26 Hen. VIII, c. 3 §8 The priours of such celles be named and remouable from time to time. 1574Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 401 To beir publict office removable of judgement within this realme. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxiii. 302 In this estate of Consuls (Two remoueable each yeere) Rome flourished. 1679Providence Rec. (1895) VIII. 47 It is generally sayd yt ye Collony would remove such Courts as are remoueable according to Charter. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 165 Such Curate is removeable at the Will and Pleasure of the Rector of the Mother Church. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 41 Servants, the essence of whose situation is to obey the commands of some other, and to be removeable at pleasure. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 603 The judges who had laid down this doctrine were removable at the royal pleasure. b. n. A removable resident magistrate in Ireland.
1888Pall Mall G. 20 Apr. 4/1 Sentences passed by the Removables are being increased on appeal by the county court judges. 2. Capable of being removed (from one place to another, or altogether).
1564J. Rastell Confut. Jewell's Serm. 162 b, The..table..was remoueable vpp and downe. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xvii. (Arb.) 51 Which carts were floored with bords and made for remouable stages to passe from one streete of their townes to another. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xl. (1713) 289 All Matter, or whatever else is removeable. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. v. (1691) 87 That the Impediments of Englands greatness, are but contingent and removable. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 364 Unless they are..living in an annual service; for then they are not removeable. 1859Lang Wand. India 261 They carried away every marble tablet therein erected, and removeable without much difficulty. 1885Spectator 8 Aug. 1041/2 The evils of a bad system were not removable by attacks upon those who administered it. Hence reˈmovableness.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. iii. ix. 268 The removableness of ignorance by knowledge, &c., would never have been suggested to them. |