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statable, a.|ˈsteɪtəb(ə)l| Also stateable. [f. state v. + -able.] Capable of being stated.
1802Canning in Earl Malmesbury's Diaries & Corr. (1844) IV. 117, I will..send you..one or two trifling alterations more, and will then state to you the statable reasons for this last change. 1859Dickens Christmas Stor., Haunted House i, For all these reasons, and for others less easily and briefly statable, I find [etc.]. 1877Ruskin Fors Clav. lxxvi. 119 Those are the clearly stateable and memorable heads of expenditure. 1887Century Mag. Mar. 921 The rationale of this is simple, and statable in brief form. |