removableadj.n.

c1470 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) xi. 185 (MED) Glas wyndowes, latices, dores, lokkes..after the custome of the Citie be removable and be no principals nor fastyned to any principall of the same tenement.

a1475 in C. F. Brown Reg. Middle Eng. Relig. & Didactic Verse (1916) I. 316 The world so wyde the ayre so removable.

a1500 ( in J. S. Brewer Monumenta Franciscana (1858) 522 (MED) That the sayd wyndos be well and sewerly berred of yerne and closyd with wyndowes of glasse, natt removable, but fastened stedfastly to the barres abowesayd.

1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell f. 162^v The..table..was remoueable vpp and downe.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xvii. 29 Which carts were floored with bords and made for remouable stages to passe from one streete of their townes to another.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues iii. xl. 559 All Matter, or what-ever else is removeable.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) v. 87 That the Impediments of Englands greatness, are but contingent and removable.

1729 P. Gilles Antiq. Constantinople x. 50 These Presses are fasten'd to the Wall, have two Folding Doors, and are removable at Pleasure.

1789 Edinb. Advertiser 28 May 340/2 We met with La Serveillante frigate..of 32 guns, removable to either side.

1835 Analyst 2 266 This [sc. coal] is..broken into removable pieces, and piled on the small..carriages.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 261 They carried away every marble tablet therein erected, and removeable without much difficulty.

1885 Spectator 8 Aug. 1041/2 The evils of a bad system were not removable by attacks upon those who administered it.

1914 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 51 92 If the houses of a city were like the tents of an army, inexpensive, easily removable,..the problem would virtually cease to be a problem.

1953 A. G. E. Pearse Histochem. ii. 19 Prevented from diffusing into the fixing fluid, by Ca, Co and Cd, they are not fixed..and are still removable by fat solvents.

1995 Canad. Living June 89 This underwire Mighty Bra has foam cups and removable pads.

1526 C. Mery Talys sig. Biii^v As for me I am permanent alway and not remouable therfore ye may be sure to haue me alway whan ye lyste.

1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 3 §8 The priours of such celles be named and remouable from time to time.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxiv. 304 In this estate of Consuls (Two, remoueable each yeere) Rome flourished.

1679 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1895) VIII. 47 It is generally sayd y^t ye Collony would remove such Courts as are remoueable according to Charter.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 165 Such Curate is removeable at the Will and Pleasure of the Rector of the Mother Church.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 41 Servants; the essence of whose situation is to obey the commands of some other, and to be removeable at pleasure. View more context for this quotation

1832 Legal Observer Jan. 156/2 Fees on country commissions are still to be paid to the Secretary of Bankrupts, and..this officer is to be a permanent instead of a removable one.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 603 The judges who had laid down this doctrine were removable at the royal pleasure.

1889 Spectator 14 Dec. 830 We want a removable Secretary for school works, not a committee.

1910 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 4 70 The commissioners..are removable by the governor-general in council only for cause assigned.

2007 Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. 19 This post [sc. Attorney-General] should be one of enduring tenure, although an office holder should, like High Court judges, be removable by a resolution of both Houses of Parliament.

1592 J. Lyly Midas v. ii. sig. F4 Pet. I am content, take thou all. These be his moueable baddes. Li. And from me they shall be remoueables.

1864 G. Musgrave Ten Days in French Parsonage II. viii. 280 Any counter where removables might be at hand.

1899 A. M. Stoddart Elizabeth Pease Nichol xi. 216 She had to make room for furniture and linen from Feethams, whence her share of removables followed at the end of the month.

1922 Dental Outlook June 169/2 The dental market became flooded with every conceivable kind of lock and joint to hinge and hang the ‘Removables’.

1992 MacUser Nov. 5/2 Mass Micro stands alone for still another reason: the number of awards we've won for our removables.

1888 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 Jan. The arguments which satisfied the ‘removables’ was [sic] clearly not sufficient in a court which pretended to seriousness.

1907 Times 28 Dec. 10/3 Resident magistrates..might be moved from one district to another..by the Executive if they failed to please them, and..there would be..a natural tendency..to fall in with the views of the Executive, and for this reason the resident magistrates got amongst the populace the name of ‘Removables’.

1915 M. M. Bodkin Recoll. Irish Judge xvi. 158 I turned my back to the court and addressed myself to the English magistrates instead of the Removables.

2005 Ripper Notes Jan.–Mar. 18 This situation had led to the Secretary of State for Ireland..to institute..a series of..emergency powers given to the Resident Magistrates, or Removables as they were known.

1844 Christian Rev. Dec. vi. 607 The validity of an argument is in proportion to..the removableness of the objections by the sound and sober exhibition of truth and fact.

1990 Mod. Brewery Age (Nexis) 10 Sept. We found that ethanol solvent gave..complete removableness in bottle washing process.