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performable, a.|pəˈfɔːməb(ə)l|
[f. perform v. + -able.]
Capable of being performed; that may be carried out, executed, effected, or done.
1548Gest Pr. Masse in H. G. Dugdale Life (1840) App. i. 93 An issue no lesse perfourmable then resonable. 1650J. Dury Just Re-prop. 28 Nothing is farther required of them then what they proclaime themselves to be a performable duty. 1701–2Locke On Miracles Wks. 1804 III. 455 Operations performable only by Divine Power. 1903Hibbert Jrnl. Mar. 599 A rite not performable without the bishop.
†b. (A thing) To be performed or done. Obs.
1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 35 Suche thinges as they should commaunde to be perfourmable. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. iii. 62 The remembering of it they hold to be an act of Religion, performable by all Man-kinde. |