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mistakable, a.|mɪˈsteɪkəb(ə)l|
[f. mistake v. + -able.]
Capable of being mistaken, misapprehended, or misunderstood.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. i. 279 If wee consider how differently they are set forth in minor and lesse mistakeable numbers. c1653Hammond Paraphr. N.T. Postscr. §32 Places of Scripture..mistakable by the Enthusiast. 1822Examiner 341/1 The darkest and most mistakable parts of this drama. 1864Bowen Logic xii. (1870) 388 The internal peculiarities of the malady, of which the outward symptoms are only the faint and easily mistakable indications.
Hence miˈstakableness; miˈstakably adv.
1665J. Sergeant Sure Footing 221 Supposing the notoriety of it secur'd the thing from mistakableness. 1844Browning Let. to Dowson 10 Mar. in Athenæum 18 July (1891) 108/1 The good fortune which appears slowly but not mistakably setting in upon me. |