a. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] Capable of being contained.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks. (1772), I. 85 (R.). The air containable within the cavity of the æolipile, amounted to eleven grains.
1716. M. Davies, Ath. Brit., II. 243. This Contest about Primitive Christianity as containable in a Primitive Library.
1810. Coleridge, Friend, No. 27, 434. Each Man’s soul seems hardly containable in his body, like a prisoner, whose Jail is on fire.
