separableadj.
/ˈsɛpərəb(ə)l/ 1.
a. Capable of being separated. separable accident, separable quality: one which can be separated from its subject.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > capable of separation > able to be separated
departable1377
separable1393
severable1548
exemptitious1667
dissociable1833
sunderable1849
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xix. 193 Siþthen thei ben surlepes [MS. G. seperable]..thei han sondry names.
?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew Prol. f. xi Though they [sc. fayth, loue, and hope] be inseperable, yet they haue seperable and sondrie offices.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 67 Common qualities, are separable, or inseparable. The former may be added or taked away from the subiect, without destruction thereof; as coldnesse from the water, whitenesse from paper.
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 64 Separable accidents.
1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. iv. 93 That the Magistrate is separable from the man is evident.
1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 129 A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 22 Shell..conical, separable into two parts.
1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans ix. 223 Catholics..hold that faith and love,..faith and works, are simply separable, and ordinarily separated in fact.
b. Grammar.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > of morphemes: free
separable1773
free1926
1773 A. Bayly Plain Gram. Hebrew Lang. 14 The Cases are expressed either by entire Prepositions, called separable, or by a letter of the preposition prefixed to the noun, and called inseparable.
1815 S. Lyon Hebrew Gram. 61 Separable pronouns, signifying the agent.
1888 K. Meyer Ger. Gram. i. §246 Verbs compounded with separable prefixes.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > capable of separation
separable1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxxvi. sig. E4v In our two loues there is but one respect, Though in our liues a seperable spight.
Derivatives
ˈseparableness n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > ability to be separated
separability1640
separableness1666
1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities To Rdr. b 5 b The Separableness of Accidents from Subjects of Inhæsion.
1864 C. Kingsley What does Newman Mean? 33 The separableness of faith and works.
1906 Tablet 23 June 965 All idea of order or separableness among the elements of the spirit-life must be abandoned.
ˈseparably adv.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adverb] > in a separable manner
separably1628
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 151 b The Rent incident to the Reuersion separably, but the fealtie incident to the Reuersion inseparably.
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