reparableadj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛp(ə)rəbl/, U.S.

/ˈrɛp(ə)rəb(ə)l/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French reparable; Latin reparābilis.

Etymology: < French reparable able to be repaired, capable of repairing or amending (?a1470) and its etymon classical Latin reparābilis able to be recovered or restored, retrievable, having the power of restoring < reparāre repair v.² + -bilis -ble suffix. Compare Catalan reparable (1490), Spanish reparable (14th cent.), Italian riparabile (a1530 as reparabile ). Compare earlier repairable adj., irreparable adj.

1. Capable of being repaired.

a. Of an undesirable condition or situation: capable of being remedied or put right; rectifiable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > putting right a wrong or loss > put right > able to be

reparable?1549

redressable1648

rightable1891

?1549 R. Wyer tr. C. de Pisan C. Hyst. Troye xliii. sig. J.vii^v Great offence well maye be reparable.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 637 Hee was to deale with a reparable accident, my poore slaves were hanged irreparably.

1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living iii. iv. §9 An adulterous person is tyed to restitution of the injury, so far as it is reparable.

1696 G. Harvey Treat. Small-pox & Measles (new ed.) xvii. 114 The least over-losing of Blood precipitates them into a faintness, and a great weakness, not easily reparable, or retrivable.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xix. 54 But as he declares, that it was not a premeditated offence;..and as it is a reparable one; let Us, for this one time, forgive him.

1792 E. Burke Let. 8 Sept. in Corr. (1968) VII. 199 The loss of friends, at no time very reparable, is impossible to be repaired at all at this advanced period.

1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xiv. 237 In our Athenian constitution, if we are weakly governed or capriciously,..the mischief is transitory and reparable.

1884 American 8 356 They inflicted only slight and reparable injuries on those fortresses.

1907 H. James Amer. Scene xi. 337 It would appear inevitable to ask whether such a mistake on such a scale can prove effectively reparable—whether ground so lost can be effectively recovered.

1956 Tempo No. 42. 1 The world of music suffered its greatest, least reparable loss last year with the death of Guido Cantelli.

2006 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 July 9 Each man has this week publicly questioned the other's honesty. Such a breakdown of trust might be reparable.

b. Capable of being restored to good or proper condition; restorable; fixable. Also: that may be healed; curable.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired

reparable1555

repairable1561

fashionable1607

mendable1638

1555 R. Eden Of North Regions in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 265^v The lakes..are replenysshed with fysshe In so much that no poure of coulde is able to extinguysshe thincrease of the yeare folowinge, and the succession reparable so many hundreth yeares.

a1630 Earl Pembroke Poems (1660) 95 Love grants me then a reparable face, Which, whilst that colours are, can want no grace.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. ix. 127 This part, or animall of Plato, containeth not only sanguineous and reparable particles, but is made up of veynes, nerves, arteries.

a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. viii. 7 Their understandings weakened..reparable, in part only, by much study.

1741 Family Mag. ii. 79/2 There are parts in animals hard, and others easy, to be refresh'd and repair'd: Those easily reparable, are the blood, spirits, and flesh.

1809 Naval Chron. 21 332 Twenty reparable..spare wheels.

1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 219 Take not away Thy guiding gift of Reason! Architect Of this inimitable monument (Not built by hands, nor reparable here)... Shatter not what Thyself hast made so fair!

1903 Times 28 Sept. 12/4 The roof suffered damage, and, being of iron, was not reparable.

1935 Jrnl. Hygiene 35 546 At this stage, the damage is reparable, as animals ordinarily return to normal after sublethal dosage.

1997 Independent 5 July (Mag.) 36/2 What's more, most parts of the sandal..are reparable, which is bad news if you get bored with them.

†2. That restores sound; that resounds. Only in reparable echo. Obsolete. rare. [After classical Latin reparābilis ēchō (Persius Satires 1. 102).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing

rebounding1555

rolling1575

repercussive1604

doubling1605

reverberate1608

reparable echo1616

revoicing1631

reverberating1632

rewording1657

re-echoing1668

repeating1685

phonocamptic1694

echoing1702

anacamptic1706

anacamptical1706

reactive1712

rebellowing1712

redoubling1717

repulsive1744

reverberative1807

reverbering1822

reboant1830

echoy1841

reverberant1847

reboantic1853

verberant1864

1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. sig. B6^v Mœnas..oft did ‘Evion’ sound; The reparable eccho did rebound.

1624 Trag. Nero ii. sig. C3^v As when the Menades..Ennion doe Ingeminate a round Which reparable Ecchoe doth resound.

3. With by. Denoting a highway, bridge, etc., which a specified person or authority is liable to keep in repair, or which is repaired at the expense of a specified person or group of people. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired > falling to be repaired by a person or authority

repairablea1634

reparable1830

1830 J. Manning & A. Ryland Rep. Cases King's Bench III. 437 If by the turnpike act, the road became a highway reparable by the parish, it would remain a highway whilst the act continued.

1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 438 A vast number of new streets..had not yet been declared public and reparable by the local authorities.

1885 Law Times 78 299/1 The road should..be declared a highway reparable by the inhabitants at large.

1938 Times 15 Jan. 12/1 The council would make an improvement line and then buy the land if they wanted to widen the road, which was reparable by the inhabitants at large.

1998 C. Chalklin Eng. Counties & Public Building 1650–1830 77 The new bridges erected..should, as a condition of their becoming reparable by the county, be constructed as the justices might approve.

Derivatives

ˈreparably adv. rare

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Reparably, in a manner capable of remedy by restoration, amendment, or supply.

1975 Economist (Nexis) 8 Nov. 35 A pressure wave of 2 lb per sq. inch will shatter eardrums (possibly reparably), whereas 5 lb psi will damage them for ever, 10–15 lb psi will injure lungs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	reparable
释义	reparableadj. Brit. /ˈrɛp(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˈrɛp(ə)rəb(ə)l/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French reparable; Latin reparābilis. Etymology: < French reparable able to be repaired, capable of repairing or amending (?a1470) and its etymon classical Latin reparābilis able to be recovered or restored, retrievable, having the power of restoring < reparāre repair v.² + -bilis -ble suffix. Compare Catalan reparable (1490), Spanish reparable (14th cent.), Italian riparabile (a1530 as reparabile ). Compare earlier repairable adj., irreparable adj. 1. Capable of being repaired. a. Of an undesirable condition or situation: capable of being remedied or put right; rectifiable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > putting right a wrong or loss > put right > able to be reparable?1549 redressable1648 rightable1891 ?1549 R. Wyer tr. C. de Pisan C. Hyst. Troye xliii. sig. J.vii^v Great offence well maye be reparable. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 637 Hee was to deale with a reparable accident, my poore slaves were hanged irreparably. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living iii. iv. §9 An adulterous person is tyed to restitution of the injury, so far as it is reparable. 1696 G. Harvey Treat. Small-pox & Measles (new ed.) xvii. 114 The least over-losing of Blood precipitates them into a faintness, and a great weakness, not easily reparable, or retrivable. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xix. 54 But as he declares, that it was not a premeditated offence;..and as it is a reparable one; let Us, for this one time, forgive him. 1792 E. Burke Let. 8 Sept. in Corr. (1968) VII. 199 The loss of friends, at no time very reparable, is impossible to be repaired at all at this advanced period. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xiv. 237 In our Athenian constitution, if we are weakly governed or capriciously,..the mischief is transitory and reparable. 1884 American 8 356 They inflicted only slight and reparable injuries on those fortresses. 1907 H. James Amer. Scene xi. 337 It would appear inevitable to ask whether such a mistake on such a scale can prove effectively reparable—whether ground so lost can be effectively recovered. 1956 Tempo No. 42. 1 The world of music suffered its greatest, least reparable loss last year with the death of Guido Cantelli. 2006 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 July 9 Each man has this week publicly questioned the other's honesty. Such a breakdown of trust might be reparable. b. Capable of being restored to good or proper condition; restorable; fixable. Also: that may be healed; curable. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired reparable1555 repairable1561 fashionable1607 mendable1638 1555 R. Eden Of North Regions in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 265^v The lakes..are replenysshed with fysshe In so much that no poure of coulde is able to extinguysshe thincrease of the yeare folowinge, and the succession reparable so many hundreth yeares. a1630 Earl Pembroke Poems (1660) 95 Love grants me then a reparable face, Which, whilst that colours are, can want no grace. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. ix. 127 This part, or animall of Plato, containeth not only sanguineous and reparable particles, but is made up of veynes, nerves, arteries. View more context for this quotation a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. viii. 7 Their understandings weakened..reparable, in part only, by much study. 1741 Family Mag. ii. 79/2 There are parts in animals hard, and others easy, to be refresh'd and repair'd: Those easily reparable, are the blood, spirits, and flesh. 1809 Naval Chron. 21 332 Twenty reparable..spare wheels. 1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 219 Take not away Thy guiding gift of Reason! Architect Of this inimitable monument (Not built by hands, nor reparable here)... Shatter not what Thyself hast made so fair! 1903 Times 28 Sept. 12/4 The roof suffered damage, and, being of iron, was not reparable. 1935 Jrnl. Hygiene 35 546 At this stage, the damage is reparable, as animals ordinarily return to normal after sublethal dosage. 1997 Independent 5 July (Mag.) 36/2 What's more, most parts of the sandal..are reparable, which is bad news if you get bored with them. †2. That restores sound; that resounds. Only in reparable echo. Obsolete. rare. [After classical Latin reparābilis ēchō (Persius Satires 1. 102).] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing rebounding1555 rolling1575 repercussive1604 doubling1605 reverberate1608 reparable echo1616 revoicing1631 reverberating1632 rewording1657 re-echoing1668 repeating1685 phonocamptic1694 echoing1702 anacamptic1706 anacamptical1706 reactive1712 rebellowing1712 redoubling1717 repulsive1744 reverberative1807 reverbering1822 reboant1830 echoy1841 reverberant1847 reboantic1853 verberant1864 1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. sig. B6^v Mœnas..oft did ‘Evion’ sound; The reparable eccho did rebound. 1624 Trag. Nero ii. sig. C3^v As when the Menades..Ennion doe Ingeminate a round Which reparable Ecchoe doth resound. 3. With by. Denoting a highway, bridge, etc., which a specified person or authority is liable to keep in repair, or which is repaired at the expense of a specified person or group of people. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired > falling to be repaired by a person or authority repairablea1634 reparable1830 1830 J. Manning & A. Ryland Rep. Cases King's Bench III. 437 If by the turnpike act, the road became a highway reparable by the parish, it would remain a highway whilst the act continued. 1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 438 A vast number of new streets..had not yet been declared public and reparable by the local authorities. 1885 Law Times 78 299/1 The road should..be declared a highway reparable by the inhabitants at large. 1938 Times 15 Jan. 12/1 The council would make an improvement line and then buy the land if they wanted to widen the road, which was reparable by the inhabitants at large. 1998 C. Chalklin Eng. Counties & Public Building 1650–1830 77 The new bridges erected..should, as a condition of their becoming reparable by the county, be constructed as the justices might approve. Derivatives ˈreparably adv. rare ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Reparably, in a manner capable of remedy by restoration, amendment, or supply. 1975 Economist (Nexis) 8 Nov. 35 A pressure wave of 2 lb per sq. inch will shatter eardrums (possibly reparably), whereas 5 lb psi will damage them for ever, 10–15 lb psi will injure lungs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1549
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