informableadj.

c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 540 At his deth I [sc. Lucifer] xall a-pere informable, Schewynge hym all hys synnys abhomynable, Prewynge hys soule damnable, So wyth dyspeyer I xall hym qwell.

1677 in Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. Jan. (1907) 280 He at last signed that power by wh'ch this informable Colony for a long time had hardly breath enough left to make her groanings Audible.

1758 H. Lee Sophron II. 351 It was impossible that men, only informable by their senses, could have any ideas of what was not within the reach of those senses.

1796 W. Ridgeway Irish Term Rep. I. 220 The Court of King's Bench in England has frequently attached, and asserted the power of attachment for misdemenaours by officers of justice, which misdemeanours were sufficiently enormous to be informable.

1866 Primitive Church Mag. 1 Dec. 268 Man's everlasting future existence.., his native power of intercommunication, and therefore, of his faculty of informable recognition, or his ability to learn who people are in heaven.

1881 T. Harper Metaphysics of School II. v. ii. 354 The vegetative and—at least in the lower class of animals—the animal form are both of them virtually or potentially informable and de facto informed by quantity.

1908 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. July 104 The vast majority of women are uninformed, and not informable, on political subjects.

1935 W. de la Mare Early one Morning 401 He found me ignorant of this very rudimentary fact, but informable.

1953 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 12 Apr. 2/1 I'm sure you'll always find his reporting interesting and informable.

1994 D. E. Rose Symbolic & Connectionist Approach to Legal Information Retrieval iii. 51 These models are not very informable.

2001 Social Stud. Sci. 31 147 Those who assent are governed by myths that preclude their being truly informed or informable.