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representable, a.|rɛprɪˈzɛntəb(ə)l|
[-able.]
Capable of being represented.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 123 All the sorts of bodies representable by graving. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 311 The Perfections of God are not representable by any created Being in a true propriety of their nature. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. v. 285 God cannot therefore be known by..any similitude..because not representable by any image. 1821Examiner 760/1 The best, or at least, the most representable of the tragedies. 189119th Cent. XXIX. 222, I have spoken of representable, not imitable, truths.
absol.1828De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 894 Bringing so mysterious a thing as a spiritual nature or agency within the limits of the representable.
b. spec. in Law (see quot.).
1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. xlvi. 807 A fungible or representable thing is a thing whose place, lieu, or room may be supplied by a thing of the same kind or even by a thing not of the same kind, as money in the form of damages.
Hence representaˈbility.
1879W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 95 The craving for clear representability..leads often to an unwillingness to treat any abstractions whatever as if they were intelligible. 1977M. Cohen Sensible Words i. 14 What these men share is a confidence in the visual representability of meaning. |