a. [f. CONVEY v.1 + -ABLE.]

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  † 1.  Having the quality of leading or conducting.

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1567.  Drant, Horace, To Rdr. sig. * iv. It is a more conveyghable waye to the top of the hill.

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  2.  That may be carried or transported.

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1665.  Ray, Flora, 50. Transferable favours from one florist to another, aptly conveyable many miles distant.

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1853.  Fraser’s Mag., XLVII. 75. Cholera not contagious, but conveyable in atmosphere.

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  † 3.  Transferable, transmissible. Obs.

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1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 663. An euerlasting priesthood and not conueyable.

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  4.  Communicable.

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1738.  Anderson, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 320. Our thoughts are conveyable in writing.

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1756.  Burke, Subl. & B., V. vii. Opinions … conveyable for the most part by words only.

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  5.  That may be legally conveyed.

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1875.  Poste, Gaius, II. Comm. (ed. 2), 177. Corporeal hereditaments were conveyable by feoffment.

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