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assignable, a.|əˈsaɪnəb(ə)l|
[f. assign v. + -able.]
1. That may be assigned or allotted; legally transferable.
1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Assignment, A bond is assignable for a valuable consideration paid. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. §4. 66 A fixed number of scholarships..assignable among the colleges.
2. That may be designated or specified.
1659Pearson Creed (1839) 178 Being thus the Alpha..he was before any time assignable. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §239 No assignable power..could lift one of these stones. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. I. 82 Without assignable limit.
3. That may be referred as belonging to or originating in; attributable.
1673Lady's Call. i. ii. §15 The correcting of som particular passions are more immediately assignable to other virtues. 1869Phillips Vesuv. viii. 235 Thus three relations of volcanic energy are assignable to geographical conditions.
4. That may be alleged as accounting for.
1659Pearson Creed (1839) 36 There is no other cause assignable of the rain but God. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. i. 8 In the truly great poets..there is a reason assignable..for every word. |