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perceivable, a. Now rare.|pəˈsiːvəb(ə)l|
[In ME. a. OF. percevable (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.); in later times referred directly to perceive v.]
1. ‘Perceptible; such as falls under perception’ (J.).
a. By the senses: Sensible.
c1450Macro Plays (E.E.T.S.) 55/598 It ys ioy of ioys inestymable, To halse, to kys þe affyable; A louer ys sone perceyvable Be þe smylynge on me, wan þat doth remove. 1614Raleigh Hist. World (1634) 5 He created, and was the sole cause of this aspectable and perceivable universal. 1788A. Seward Lett. (1811) II. 122 There was a perceivable smile upon the lips. 1847Illustr. Lond. News 4 Sept. 146/1 Filthy sewers..perceivable by the nose.
b. By the mind: Intelligible, appreciable.
1567Drant Horace To Rdr. * v, I being in all myne other speaches so playne, and perceaueable. 1754Edwards Freed. Will ii. vi, All perceivable Time is judged and perceived by the Mind only by the..successive Changes of its own Ideas. 1832H. Martineau Hill & Valley vi. 84 There were many perceivable reasons for this change.
†2. That may be gathered or collected (as taxes); = F. percevable. (Cf. perceive v. 8.) Obs. rare.
1569Act 11 Eliz. in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 300 As like forfeytures to your Majestie by the lawes of this Realme be leviable and perceivable.
Hence perceivaˈbility, perˈceivableness.
1641Gascoigne in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 45 The perceivableness of this ceasing by the contraction. 1883A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric 76 The condition of the co⁓existence of a plurality of monads in mutual relation, and the consequent perceivability of a universe. |