explainableadj.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxi. iv. 842 Many of these examples..are..but explanable by weake coniectures [L. coniecturis tantum saepe infirmis atque imbecillibus quaesita].

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. §13. 268 Thus is it symbollically explainable and implieth purification. View more context for this quotation

1701 P. Stubs Hopes of Resurrection asserted & Applied 11 Nor is the Resurrection of the Body more easily explainable from the first formation of it.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 422 Virtues which have a worth of their own explainable to his understanding.

1842 C. Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 177 I have an idea (not easily explainable in writing).

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 176 Phenomena..explainable by the action of the drug upon the sensitive nerves.

1903 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 461 The subject-matter should be explainable by the pupil 's experience.

1952 ABA Jrnl. Nov. 918/3 The investigation revealed that the poor man actually was being forced to sleep in the basement with six little dogs, that his wife did have 125 pigeons..and that his various other ‘delusions’ were all entirely true or rationally explainable.

2005 Advocate 15 Feb. 25/2 The moodiness and frustration he'd been exhibiting seemed explainable. Why he was taking it out on me, however, was not clear.