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1648 F. Nethersole Project for Peace 5 Without having respect to the practicablenesse thereof.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 99 The attempts made by an Ingenious English Man for perfecting such Glasses..so as to shew by the Effects the practicableness of the Invention.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lv. 344 Which I mention only to shew the Practicableness of a Reformation.

1786 J. W. Wallace New Syst. Midwifery (ed. 2) iii. ix. 308 If these few particulars are adopted..I should hope that better success would attend Hysterotomy. As to their practicableness, I have consulted Mr. Hunter, and he admits them fully.

1818 N. Amer. Rev. May 110 The wisdom with which he displayed at the same moment the sublimity and practicableness of Christian value.

1883 Christian 1 Nov. 12/1 The question of the practicableness..of the Jordan Valley Canal scheme.

1915 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 47 777 The decisions arrived at reflect throughout a wise flexibility which has made for practicableness while insuring at the same time a high standard of scientific excellence.

1989 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: U.S.S.R. (B.B.C.) 5 May SU/0451/A1/1 The ‘paper’ admits that in recent years the foreign policy of the Soviet Union has acquired a ‘new flexibility, practicableness and receptivity’ towards the security needs of other countries.

1994 L. Sadat Wexler in P. M. Lützeler Europe after Maastricht x. 173 George Bermann casts doubt on the practicableness of judicial review, although he considers it highly desirable that subsidiarity be considered a justiciable principle.