单词 | purgeable |
释义 | purgeableadj. Capable of being purged (in earlier use, chiefly corresponding to purge v.1 1). ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > types of crime generally > types of offence according to punishment penalc1443 capital?1531 purgeable1644 transportable1769 statutable1782 unclergyable1817 non-clergyable1826 extraditable1887 sanctionable1927 imprisonable1971 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [adjective] > purged > capable of being purgeable1644 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxiv. 292 When the Physitian giueth a purge, it worketh two thinges; the one is, to make some certaine humour more liquid and purgeable then the rest. 1678 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) I. 10 The Lords declared that they will find that mora purgeable at the bar. 1705 W. Forbes Treat. Church-lands & Tithes 319 Clauses irritant in Tacks are not ordinarly purgeable after they are once incurr'd. 1757 J. Dalrymple Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. 144 They have held the irritancy to be purgeable at the bar. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iii. vii. 188 An interest not purgeable by release. 1887 A. W. Verrall Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes 81 Homicide which cannot be purged is that done by one man on another of the same tribe; the slaying of Argive by Cadmean is purgeable. 1947 Pacific Affairs 20 303 Abolition of the federations of neighbourhood associations..as official bodies greatly reduced the number of purgeable persons. 1967 Science 15 Dec. 1385 (advt.) Enclosure is purgable with dry nitrogen. 1991 R. Conquest Great Terror xiii. 399 The most obviously purgeable of the latter were the foreign Communists in the apparatus of the Comintern. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。