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单词 attachable
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attachableadj.

Brit. /əˈtatʃəbl/, U.S. /əˈtætʃəbəl/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: attach v., -able suffix.
Etymology: < attach v. + -able suffix. In sense 1 after Anglo-Norman and Law French attachable (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in legal use) and post-classical Latin attachiabilis (from 13th cent. in British sources).
I. Senses corresponding to attach v. 1.
1. Law. Liable to be seized by legal authority. See attach v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [adjective] > arrested > liable to be
arrestable1555
attachablea1579
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [adjective] > liable to be levied upon for debt > seizing goods for debt > seized for debt > able to be
strainable1508
poindable1511
poundable1527
attachablea1579
distrainable1588
a1579 N. Bacon Arguments in Parl. (1641) 2 For Contempts committed by a Noble man against his Prince, his person is attachable by Law.
1722 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Apr. 353 He inform'd the Court that there he found that their Funds were attachable for their Bonds.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 102 The Goods on board..shall be more particularly bound and attachable for the same.
1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 525 No attachable debt was in existence at the date.
1903 Publishers' Weekly 14 Feb. 559/2 Even if he had attachable assets he would know how to secure them against creditor and minion of the law.
1984 H. Dillard Daughters of Reconquest iii. 86 Only after her property and their house had been set aside did the authorities step in to seize the man's attachable goods.
II. Senses corresponding to attach v. II.
2.
a. Attributable to something else as an adjunct; that may be connected to something as a corollary, accompaniment, or consequence.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential
accidental1387
casual1398
incident1523
accidentary?1549
accessarya1555
chanceablea1557
accessory1563
circumstant1583
advenient1594
adventive1605
adventitial1607
circumstantial1608
contingent1628
adventious1633
incidental1644
accessional1646
contingential1647
non-essential1647
extra-essential1667
attachable1798
dividuous1816
inessential1832
peripheral1902
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > able to be
attachable1798
1798 ‘T. Plain’ Let. in Scots Chron. 19 Jan. The blame, I am sorry to say, is attachable to Mr Kemble.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 112 The terms ‘true’ and ‘false’ are..attachable to the opposite branches.
1918 H. L. Jackson Probl. Fourth Gospel iv. 44 A contingency remains that the responsibility for the dubious statement is not attachable to himself.
2007 J. Duran Women, Philos. & Lit. ii. v. 83 What many of the French theorists have in common is an acknowledgement of the importance of the semiotic.., and a concomitant importance attachable to the patriarchal langue paternelle that..moves away from the mother.
b. Able to be fastened or joined physically, by tacking, hooking on, tying, stitching, sticking, clipping, stapling, etc. Frequently with to. Cf. detachable adj.
ΚΠ
1818 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 108 372 A strong bar of Swedish iron..from which projected at right angles, four inflexible iron arms, attachable by powerful screws to any part of the bar.
1854 T. Watson Jrnl. Soc. Arts 21 Dec. 80/1 Improvements in the construction of attachable seconds watches.
1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. ii. 50 A throne, to which wheels were attached, and horses attachable.
1924 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Dec. 300/2 Water-Closet Seats for Infants, Attachable to Ordinary Water-Closet Seats.
1958 G. H. Needham Pract. Use Microscope vi. 87 The comparison microscope with separate microscopes and attachable comparison eyepieces to unite them is the one usually preferred.
2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) viii. 258 The deck of the slim kayak was packed with its own weaponry: a harpoon shaft..; a separate harpoon head about six inches long, attachable to the shaft by a toggle connection.
3. Capable of personal attachment to others. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > affection > [adjective] > joined by affection > capable of being
attachable1830
1830 T. Moore Lett. & Jrnls. Life Byron I. 118 An amour..of that sort of casual description which less attachable natures would have forgotten, and more prudent ones at least concealed.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. vi. 328 Voltaire is, by nature, an attached or attachable creature.
1897 Q. Rev. Jan. 16 Gibbon proved himself an affectionate son; his father speedily discovered that he had an attachable heart.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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