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单词 activable
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activableadj.

Brit. /ˈaktɪvəbl/, U.S. /ˈæktɪvəb(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s actiueable, 1600s activeable, 1900s– activable.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: active adj., -able suffix.
Etymology: Apparently < active adj. + -able suffix. In sense 2 after activate v.
1. Probably: excitable, active. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [adjective]
tickle1534
gunpowder1598
agitable1603
activable1606
thatched1606
excitable1609
powdery1611
incensible1614
hot-bloodeda1616
warm-headed1690
combustible1698
fermentable1731
intoxicablea1734
tindery1753
inflammable1800
pattypan1858
gunpowdery1868
gunpowderous1870
erethic1888
arousable1890
hyper1942
1606 Returne from Pernassus iv. iii. sig. G4v To thinke so many actiueable [Hazlitt activable] wits, That might contend with proudest birds of Po, Sits now immur'd within their priuate cells.
a1629 F. Hubert Egypts Favorite (1631) sig. B8 Those nobler graces of the mind, Wit, Vnderstanding, Iudgement, Memory, Serue all as one sad Index..And the more actiue-able that they are, The more they set my suffrings on the racke.
2. That may be activated.
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1908 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 5 267 The thermostable element proved inactivable with respect to pneumococcus and streptococcus and activable in a small degree with respect to staphylococcus.
1956 H. Grundfest et al. in B. Woodhall & G. W. Beebe Peripheral Nerve Regeneration iv. 209 The character and degree of the response of directly excited muscle fibers provide a rough estimate of the state and amount of activable muscle tissue.
2004 Adv. in Carbohydrate Chem. & Biochem. 59 103 These have been reported to be activable by magnesium bromide etherate in the presence of sodium hydrogencarbonate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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