| 释义 |
come-at-able, a. colloq.|kʌmˈætəb(ə)l|
Also comeatable, come-atable.
[f. the phrase come at (see come v. 39) + -able.]
That may be come at or reached; accessible, attainable, obtainable.
1687T. Brown Lib. Consc. in Dk. Buckhm's Wks. (1705) II. 118 The Poultry was not so comeatable as their Neighbours desir'd. 1696Tryon Misc. Pref. 1 Remedies..cheap and easily Come-at-able. 1721Cibber Lady's Last Stake i, Pleasures which were a little more comeatable. 1769Lloyd's Evening Post 11–13 Sept. 254/2 Butchers meat was scarcely comeatable. 1809Naval Chron. XXII. 43 The come-at-able facts of Captain Smith's case. 1835H. D. Inglis Channel Isl. 245 Any of those come-atable documents. 1839Ld. Meadowbank in Swinton Rep. Trial W. Humphrys 318 The Scotch estates were easily come-at-able.
Hence come-ˌat-aˈbility, come-ˈat-ableness.
1759Sterne Tr. Shandy (1760) II. vii. 53 The..com-at-ability, and convenience of all the parts. 1870Daily News 27 Sept., Her inferiority in the numbers, and still more in the ‘come-at-ableness’ of her forces. |