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reparable, a.|ˈrɛpərəb(ə)l|
[a. F. reparable (16th c.), ad. L. reparābilis: see repair v. and -able. Cf. It. riparabile, Sp. reparable.]
1. Capable of being repaired, mended, or set right again:
a. of things. Now rare.
1570Levins Manip. 4/12 Reparable, reparabilis. a1630Earl Pembroke Poems (1660) 95 Love grants me then a reparable face, Which, whilst that colours are, can want no grace. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 7 Their understandings weakened..reparable, in part only, by much study. 1809Naval Chron. XXI. 332 Twenty reparable..spare wheels. [1888R. Dowling Miracle Gold III. xxxvi. 163 ‘Your clock must have been a terrible loss, but not irreparable’. ‘Do you mean that the clock is reparable?’]
b. of injury, loss, etc.
1650Jer. Taylor Holy Living iii. iv. §9 An adulterous person is tyed to restitution of the injury, so far as it is reparable. 1779Burke Corr. (1844) III. 534 The loss of friends (at no time very reparable) is impossible to be repaired at all, at this advanced period. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Demosthenes & Eubulides Wks. 1853 I. 86/2 The mischief is transitory and reparable. 1884American VIII. 356 They inflicted only slight and reparable injuries on those fortresses.
2. Falling to be repaired by some one.
1864R. A. Arnold Cotton Fam. 438 A vast number of new streets..had not yet been declared public and reparable by the local authorities. 1885Law Times LXXVIII. 299/1 The road should..be declared a highway reparable by the inhabitants at large.
†3. Capable of repeating. Obs. rare.
After L. reparabilis echo, Persius Sat. i. 102.
1616–61B. Holyday Persius (1673) 297 Mœnas..oft did ‘Evion’ sound; The reparable eccho did rebound. 1624Trag. Nero ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 35 As when the Menades..Evion do Ingeminate around, Which reparable Eccho doth resound.
Hence ˈreparably adv. (Johnson 1755). |