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restorable, a.|rɪˈstɔərəb(ə)l| [f. restore v. + -able.] That can be restored or brought back to a former condition.
1611Cotgr., Rendable, rendible, renderable, yeeldable, restorable. 1662Irish Act 14 & 15 Chas. II, c. 2 §21 The just and legal title of any person, that is restoreable by this ower declaration. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. vii. Wks. 1751 IX. 107 That absurd Practice..whereby great Quantities of restorable Land are made utterly desperate. 1875Poste Gaius ii. 205 So that they are no longer separable and restorable to their former condition. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. (1884) II. vi. 179 Such of the adventurers..as were to be dispossessed to make way for restorable persons. Hence reˈstorableness.
1672–3Grew Anat. Pl., Anat. Roots (1684) 63 They are very Dilative; as is also manifest from its restorableness to its former bulk again. |