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a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid l. 171 in Poems (1981) 116 Iuppiter..God of the starnis in the firmament And nureis to all thing generabill.

1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace ii. xxx. f. 135^v The bodye of man..is more perfyte than all maner bodyes outher symple or composyte and myxte, at the lestewyse whiche are generable.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iv. 6 They [sc. poets] were the first obseruers of all naturall causes & effects in the things generable and corruptible.

1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence i. 3 If every particular man, or bodie generable, have precedent causes of their beings; their whole generations must of necessity have some cause.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 18 The Forms of particular Worlds are generable and corruptible.

1707 T. Milles Nat. Immortality of Soul vi. 147 The Holy Father in this Chapter very fully and roundly affirms..that the Soul is Immortal, but then proposes to shew how this was to be reconciled with it's being generable or created.

1754 J. Kirkpatrick Anal. Inoculation i. 25 A potent and contagious Poison then is generable from the Accumulation of excrementitious animal Vapours.

1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 262 For the generable and corruptible portion of the world is comprehended indeed by the lunar sphere.

1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xl. 624 An obscure plain..Where solitude, if generable, once given To life, might have presumed an endless reign.

1884 Mind 9 253 The sun and all planets and stars in the universe..though divine and perhaps not destined to perish, are yet generable and corruptible.

1962 S. R. Levin Ling. Struct. Poetry ii. 11 Many poetic sequences are generable by the kind of grammar constructed for ordinary language, but some are not.

1992 Independent (Nexis) 5 Jan. 19 Hours of Oxford Street Christmas illumination generable by incineration of rejected feminist typescripts by Random Century Group in 1989: 1,143.32.