a. [f. BREAK v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being broken, frangible.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 2. Breakable, fragilis.

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1611.  Cotgr., Brisable, burstable, breakeable.

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1646.  Fuller, Wounded Consc. (1841), 278. Christ’s bones were in themselves breakable.

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1844.  Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. XII. 100. Breaking the eggs and every other thing breakable.

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  Hence Breakableness.

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1856.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. xv. § 13. The character on which he fixes first is frangibility—breakableness to bits.

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