assignableadj.
/əˈsʌɪnəb(ə)l/ 1. That may be assigned or allotted; legally transferable.
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society > law > transfer of property > [adjective] > transferable
alienable1604
demisable1661
transferrable1714
assignable1809
transferable1874
conveyable1875
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Assignment A bond is assignable for a valuable consideration paid.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §4. 66 A fixed number of scholarships..assignable among the colleges.
2. That may be designated or specified.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > going into detail > specially mentioned or indicated > able to be
assignable1659
specifiable1661
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 178 Being thus the Alpha..he was before any time assignable.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §239 No assignable power..could lift one of these stones.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. 82 Without assignable limit.
3. That may be referred as belonging to or originating in; attributable.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > [adjective] > attributable or imputable
longc1300
referrible1576
referable1583
imputable1635
ascriptive1649
attributary1650
attributable1661
due to1669
ascribable1671
assignable1673
accountable1681
creditable1862
1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. ii. §15 The correcting of som particular passions are more immediately assignable to other virtues.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 235 Thus three relations of volcanic energy are assignable to geographical conditions.
4. That may be alleged as accounting for.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > [adjective] > that may be alleged as accounting for
assignable1659
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 36 There is no other cause assignable of the rain but God.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. i. 8 In the truly great poets..there is a reason assignable..for every word.
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