expressibleadj.
1. Capable of being expressed.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [adjective]
explicit1549
expressible1605
effable1637
evolveda1641
describable1655
disimplicated1753
enunciable1825
talkable1830
1605 R. Carew in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 100 In some [words] we buylde others not expressable in their mother tongue.
a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 43 As farre as it is expressable, we will explaine unto you.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. ix. 403 They are under an expressible sense of Divine Wrath.
1794 W. Jones Orthogr. Asiat. Words in Wks. (1799) I. 192 A diphthong composed of our first and third vowels, and expressible, therefore, by them.
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 176 Michael Angelo held the imagination to be entirely expressible in rock.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money 70 Easily expressible in terms of the unit.
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the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > speaking > able or given to speak
reasonablea1387
quick and queathing?a1475
articulate1531
extemporal1588
extemporanean1621
extemporizing1644
expressible1661
speakable1667
extemporaneous1812
extempore1817
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 264 In Love and Thanks..tis in a Mans own power to be expressible.
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