retrievableadj.

1661 J. Fell Life T. Fuller 102 High places are levelled in death, and..are onely retrievable to posterity by some excellent pourtraits of their nobler part.

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.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iii. ii. 179 These whose Relish is retrievable, and whose Taste may yet be form'd in Morals.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xvi. 50 Still is sweet sleep retrievable.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xx. 504 Even in the hardened Barnardine, the worthy Provost can discern that spark of retrievable matter which should be fostered into hope of reformation.

1890 Spectator 6 Sept. Steps which are either irretrievable, or are retrievable only after terrible suffering and loss.

1967 Times Rev. Industry Oct. 84/1 Formalized techniques or procedures..for continuously carrying intelligence into retrievable form.

1974 C. Taylor Fieldwork in Medieval Archaeol. i. 18 The information..needs to be sorted and assembled in some form of retrievable system.

1999 E. Perkins in S. Champion Fortune Hotel 201 Our relationship may just be retrievable, Angie, and I for one would like to give it a try.

2009 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 23 July s1 It's imperative that information is retrievable, well organized, can be used when needed and..is not lost.

1884 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 27 May 4/5 The losses of money have been calculated; but the ruin of character is not quite so certain as to extent or retrievability.

1976 Linguistics 177 53 The complete retrievability of particular characteristics from the questionnaires allows us to make qualitative comparisons by cross-sectionalizing.

2007 Boston Globe (Nexis) 14 Feb. (Living Arts section) f1 E-mail keeps the lines of communication open by blending the immediacy of the spoken word with the permanence and retrievability of the written word.