orderableadj.
/ˈɔːd(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˈɔrd(ə)rəb(ə)l/ 1. Capable of being ordered or directed (to an end or result); amenable to direction or control.Rare after the 17th cent.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > able to be led or directed
menablea1393
orderable1582
guidable1676
1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xiii. 78 For the thing it self will soon be ordered (our custom is grown so orderable) tho it require som diligence, and good consideration, in him that must find it out.
a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 27 No act of sin is in its nature orderable to any good end.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 113 The King..being very orderable in all His sicknesse.
1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 216 It makes a body orderable to all possible Action.
1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 158 Man has the inevitable tendency to believe that because some part of existence is orderable all of it must be capable of being ordered.
1988 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 50 80/1 A tendency to expect the world to be ordered, or orderable, facilitates cognitive clarification of the nature of the problems stressors pose.
2. That may be requested or ordered; available for purchase, consumption, etc.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [adjective] > types of goods
homemade1565
consumable1692
in nature1719
inconsumable1785
soft1833
tenderable1868
orderable1872
self-serve1918
offshore1947
house-made1972
1872 C. S. Keyser Fairmount Park (ed. 5) 82 Those ancient hotels..still furnish..the same bill of fare as they served before the Revolution, and orderable always as ‘catfish and coffee’.
1962 C. O. Frake in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 438 Some, but apparently not all, orderable items at a lunch counter are distinguished by the term something to eat.
1971 Wescon Techn. Papers (Western Electronic Show & Convention) 15 i. 1/1 There are over 2,000 orderable versions.
1998 Voice Technol. News (Electronic ed.) 29 Sept. CallPilot will be orderable at the end of this year in North America.
3. That may be arranged in a series.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > able to be arranged in series
orderable1925
1925 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 180 Hence U2 consists of the members of a normally orderable class of finite sets of elements and is therefore normally orderable.
1939 H. Jeffreys Theory of Probability i. 15 It is generally believed that probabilities are orderable.
1949 Mind 58 194 Recently it was realised that it was not necessary to regard satisfactions as additive; all previous conclusions about economic behaviour could still be deduced if they were merely regarded as orderable.
1996 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 61 698 Countable Levi's theorem saying that a countable Abelian group G is orderable..if and only if it is torsion-free.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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