a. rare. [ad. L. contemplābil-is, f. contemplārī: see below and -BLE.] That may be contemplated.
1611. Florio, Contemplabile, contemplable, that may be contemplated.
1638. Feltham, Lett. to W. Johnson, in Lusoria, etc. (1670), 83. To them he was not in himself contemplable.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 320. This is the first negative definition of spiritual—whatever having true being is not contemplable in the forms of time and space.
1920. Dorothy M. Richardson, Pilgrimage Interim, 42. She found the nearer past, her years of London work set in the air, framed and contemplable like the pictures on the wall.
