nameableadj.

1632 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) II. 81 If the saidis dollouris were to be reducit [etc.]..the sise of the peeces [would be] to small and not namable for the vse of the people.

1650 tr. Nicholas of Cusa Idiot iii. 74 Seeing the name of God is the precision, of every name nameable, it is apparant, that in that name alone all and every thing may be knowne.

1719 Baron & Feme (ed. 2) 304 In her Lifetime he was only nameable for Conformity, and he need not have put in Bail for her.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 247 This is the Heavenly Ideal (well-named in Knox's time, and nameable in all times, a revealed ‘Will of God’).

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. iii. §2 We shall commence with Feelings, the simplest class of nameable things.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 25 He gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 272/1 The seven extant plays, with the dramas named or nameable which survive only in fragments, amount to over eighty.

1944 Downside Rev. 62 185 The inscape of a scene..is that scene experienced as absolutely unique, knit together in that oneness which is nameable only by relation.

1979 Sci. Amer. Nov. 22/3 Every integer is nameable in this language, because even an integer with no distinguishing properties can always be described by simply giving its binary sequence.

2001 Wired Feb. 135/1 Boisselier told me there are four staff members... One, she says, is a Harvard Medical School graduate—not nameable, of course.

1780 J. Adams Twenty-six Lett. Revol. Amer. (1789) 23 The sixth talk is to shew, ‘that no person, in America, is of so much influence, power, or credit, that his death, or corruption, by English money, could be of any nameable consequence’.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xiv. 311 Donauwörth... A Town nameable in History ever since.

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. x. 253 Möllendorf, nameable from that day forward.