repressibleadj.

1792 A. Ferguson Princ. Moral & Polit. Sci. II. ii. iii. 182 They are, in this duty of abstaining from harm, peculiarly repressible from force also.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlvii. 467 If I thought it would conciliate you, I would repress it, if it were repressible by any human effort.

1888 Times 14 Sept. 7/6 Pleasant it is to witness the joyousness of large masses of people, and pleasanter still would it be if that joyousness were a little more repressible.

1939 Fortune Nov. 15/3 If the sound of a siren can give you a barely repressible yen to go whooping off to get in on the excitement—look here upon the 1940 automobile that's the car-of-cars for you!

1969 M. H. Boulware Riddle of Snoring iv. 18 Snoring is repressible, even curable, when a definite cause-and-effect relationship is discovered.

1997 G. Camfield Necessary Madness vi. §iv. 171 Humor is so fundamental a part of the human psyche that it is not fully repressible.

1957 H. J. Vogel in W. D. McElroy & B. Glass Chem. Basis Heredity ii. 286 In order to facilitate further discussion, the following terminology will be used hereafter:..an enzyme-forming system that can be antagonized by a represser is ‘repressible’.

1974 Nature 10 May 110/1 The interactions which control repressible and inducible operons in bacteria are now well understood in principle.

1993 Molecular & Gen. Genetics 238 185 The folate enzymes appear to be inducible by homocysteine and repressible by methionine.

2008 Immunol. Lett. 119 6/2 As a consequence, LL-37 induces the expression of IL-8, which is repressible by MAPK inhibition.

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Repressibly, in a repressible manner.

1948 Jrnl. Politics 10 97 Many must have felt that urge strongly but repressibly.

1980 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77 4234 The isolation of stable transferents that constitutively or repressibly express argininosuccinate synthetase.