a. Also -ible. [f. COLLECT v. + -ABLE.]

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  1.  That may be collected.

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1660.  Eng. Monarchy the Freest State, 6. Many other particulars, collectable out of … Magna charta.

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1662.  Petty, Taxes, 38. Collectible by a very few hands.

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1803.  Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 243. I am weaving into it all the collectable circumstances of the time and manners of the people.

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1888.  P. Fitzgerald, in Gent. Mag., April, 374. Old play bills, like everything that is ‘collectable,’ have now become objects of value and desire to the amateur.

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1888.  Bryce, Amer. Commw., I. I. xxiii. 333. A penalty collectible on summary Conviction.

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  † 2.  That may be inferred, deducible. Obs.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 51. The difference of their concretion is … collectible from their dissolution. Ibid. (1658), Hydriot., 2. Collectible from Scripture-Expression.

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