单词 | procurable |
释义 | procurableadj. That can be procured or obtained; possible to achieve or get. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > able to be procurablec1449 purveyable1542 gettable1553 extant1555 parable1563 acquirable1606 gainable1611 purchasable1611 obtainablea1617 acquisitive1629 haveable1639 producible1640 come-at-able?1685 derivablea1711 attainable1712 embraceable1841 graspable1868 securable1876 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 548 (MED) It is alloweable, profitable, and procurable bi therto strecching meenis, that lordis and ladies..be loggid out fro the myche entermeting of the world. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Recouvrable,..also gettable, procurable. 1651 N. Buckeridge Jrnl. in Jrnl. & Letter Bk. (1973) 30 Beife or Mutton is not procuerable at any rates. a1664 I. Barrow Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 33 His treatise..I..would gladly see and have it to myself, if procurable. 1704 T. Curteis Ess. Preserv. & Recovery Health 43 It seems needless to treat of the real Benefits or Usefulness of good Wine, when seasonably and moderately taken; unless what is truly such were more easily procurable. 1755 W. Lewis in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 645 It is not to be brought into fusion by the greatest degree of fire procurable in the ordinary furnaces. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Let. May (1946) III. 367 The other books are out of print, and I don't know where procurable. 1878 A. Brassey Voy. Sunbeam xv. 265 No wine or spirits being procurable on the premises. 1912 Chemist & Druggist 80 950/2 Cards and stamps for health insurance under the National Insurance Act are now procurable at post offices. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. vii. 71/1 Relatively immobile animal foods such as shellfish..are spatially and temporally more predictable, as well as more easily procurable, than are game animals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1449 |
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