单词 | restorable |
释义 | restorableadj. Able to be restored or brought back to a former condition or ownership; suitable for restoration. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restored > able to be restorable1557 repairable1561 recoverablea1599 reducible1646 1557 J. Dee Articles Preserv. Anc. Monuments in J. Glastoniensis Chronica (1726) (modernized text) II. App. iii. 493 And the said monument or monuments..to be restorable to the said former possessor..if the said former possessor be disposed to have the said monument or monuments again. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rendable, rendible, renderable, yeeldable, restorable. 1662 Irish Act 14 & 15 Chas. II c. 2 §21 The just and legal title of any person, that is restoreable by this ower declaration. 1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 240 That absurd Practice..whereby great Quantities of restorable Land are made utterly desperate. 1794 W. Tattersall Doctr. Materialism 6 We may as easily suppose consciousness to be restorable after death, if it be the property of organized matter, as if it be the property of spirit. 1827 C. H. Phipps Historiettes II. xviii. 338 He proved ready to make restitution of all that was restorable. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. (1884) II. vi. 179 Such of the adventurers..as were to be dispossessed to make way for restorable persons. 1927 Amer. Anthropologist 29 269 We must depend on the graves for whole or restorable vessels. 1977 Early Music 5 371/2 They can be excellent musical instruments, eminently restorable. 2009 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 21 Mar. a9 The bay's restorable wetlands will not return to tidal marsh in our lifetime without money, manpower and political support. Derivatives reˈstorableness n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > capability of being restored restorableness1673 renewability1837 repairability1849 recoverability1859 repairableness1909 1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. ii. iii. 65 They are very dilative; as is also manifest from its restorableness to its former bulk again. 1846 W. Bolles Explanatory & Phonographic Pronouncing Dict. Eng. Lang. 634/1 Restorableness, the state of being restorable. 1912 V. Robinson Pathfinders in Med. 286 He was busy proving the restorableness of cut nerves. 2004 M. Dhavamony Jesus Christ in Understanding World Relig. ix. 231 Here the essential thing is the dogmatic assertion of a certain relation of other religions to the absolute of Christianity, and in the end a restorableness of them to it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1557 |
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