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opinable, a. Now rare or Obs.
(əʊˈpaɪnəb(ə)l, † ˈɒpɪnəb(ə)l)
[ad. L. opīnābil-is, f. opīnārī to opine: see -ble. Cf. F. opinable (15.. in Godef.).]
†1. That is a matter of opinion; not certain, disputable, conjectural. Obs.
1456Paston Lett. I. 369 My Lord Bedford wylle was made yn so bryeff and generall termys..but all wey new to constrew and oppynable. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Ep. iii. in Ashm. (1652) 111 This Scyence is not opinable, But very true by Raymond and others determynate. c1530Remedie of Loue 62 The matter is doubtfull and opinable To a certain you I woll my self enable. 1546Confut. Nicholas Shaxton C iij b, Opinable matters and disputable.
2. That is the object of opinion; capable of being opined or held as an opinion.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1117 How..he should admit and leave unto us sense and opinion, and not withall allow that which is sensible and opinable, a man is not able to shew. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 571 Not properly knowable, but opinable only or the object of opinion.
Hence opinaˈbility (Bailey 1721), oˈpinably adv. (in quot. opiniably).
1655in Hartlib Ref. Commw. Bees 31, I speak not opiniably, but what I know, and that experimentally. |