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ˈsortable, a.
Also 6 sortible, 9 dial. soortable.
[a. F. sortable (15th cent.), or f. sort v.1 + -able.]
†1. Suitable, appropriate; fit or befitting. Usu. const. to (or unto). Obs.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 339 To serue him in anye seruice or office,..suche as be sortible to his degree. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1329 The Moone: which they seeing to be so subject to growing and decreasing,..thought..to be sortable unto the mutability of the Dæmons kinde. 1621Sanderson Serm. I. 196 There are generous and ingenuous and liberal employments, sortable to the greatest births and educations. a1663Sir K. Digby Priv. Mem. (1827) 17 Recreations..sortable to their age. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxiv, It's a pity his Excellency is a thought eldern. The like o' yoursell, or my son Hamish, wad be mair sortable in point of years.
2. north. dial. Capable of going together.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 110 In the choise of good deales,..that they bee sortable, i.e. all of one length, all of one breadth, and all of one thicknesse. 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss. 180/1 Soortable, accordant or companionable.
†3. Of a cargo: Properly assorted; composed of suitable sorts. Obs.
1727De Foe Tour Gt. Brit., Scotl. 90 The Scots Merchants are at no Loss how to make up sortable Cargoes to send with their Ships to the Plantations. 1727― Eng. Tradesm. viii. (1732) I. 84 When merchants send adventures to our British colonies, 'tis usual with them to make up to each factor what they call a sortable cargo. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxvi, The facilities which Glasgow possessed of making up sortable cargoes for that market.
4. Capable of being sorted or arranged.
1972Computers & Humanities VI. 188 Description: Creates sortable tape from card or card-image input, sorts tape, adds..other information to sorted tape.
Hence † ˈsortably adv. Obs.
1607in Plomer Abstr. fr. Wills Eng. Printers (1903) 42 If..Nicholas Bourne shall..take so manie books..sorteablie thorough out all my warehouses as they shall arise. 1608Hieron Defence iii. 7 Shall not he who is a coheir with Christ at his table cary himselfe sortably to the said person of coheir? 1611Cotgr., Sortablement, sortably, fitly. |