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单词 revisable
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revisableadj.

Brit. /rᵻˈvʌɪzəbl/, U.S. /rəˈvaɪzəb(ə)l/, /riˈvaɪzəb(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: revise v., -able suffix.
Etymology: < revise v. + -able suffix. Compare later revisible adj.2
Able to be revised; liable to revision.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > re-examination > [adjective]
revisable1722
reviewable1741
re-examinable1763
revisible1840
1722 S. Whatley tr. P. Sarpi Rights Sovereigns & Subj. xii. 227 His judgment is..subject to correction and retraction, therefore not infallible, but disputable and revisable [It. correggibile].
1792 R. Wooddeson Systematical View Laws of Eng. I. xviii. 486 The judgments of that court are revisable by the lords in parliament.
1840 R. W. Emerson in Dial Oct. 140 A wisdom which treats the whole extant product of the human intellect as only one age revisable and reversible by him.
1892 Daily News 16 Mar. 5/7 This is the ideal system—State ownership of the minerals with fair and revisable royalties.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 29 June 1/3 The tariff established by the treaty was to be revisable every 10 years.
1956 E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics ii. 67 This is the only sense in which we can say..that factual sentences are probable, in contrast to analytic sentences (which are revisable).
1988 Daily Tel. 11 Mar. 20 There comes a point, however, when all that is revisable has been revised.
2005 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 66 407 It only has this degree of flexibility if the laws are revisable under any conditions whatsoever.

Derivatives

reˈvisableness n. rare
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > re-examination > [noun] > capability of revision
revisableness1873
1873 Contemp. Rev. 21 910 The revisableness of the Confession has always been an axiom.
reˌvisaˈbility n. [ < revisable adj. + -ity suffix: see -bility suffix]
ΚΠ
1865 A. Duvall Rep. Court of Appeals Kentucky 1 335 We cannot sustain the objection in limine to the revisability of the judgment.
1931 Times 23 July 13/5 A problem so important as the ‘revisability’ of treaties.
2001 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 29 Apr. (Floridian section) 8 f There are pitfalls in the online dictionary's revisability.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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