a. [f. CONTINUE + -ABLE. (This word existed also in OF.)] Capable of being continued or prolonged.
1787. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 317. Reason and experience prove to us that a chief magistrate, so continuable [i.e., capable of re-election], is an office for life. Ibid. (1825), Autobiog. (1859), I. 79. The fierce contentions it might excite among ourselves, if continuable for life.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., iv. 63. The tone is so sonorous and continuable.
