a. [f. prec. + -ABLE, as if ad. L. *affirmābilis.]

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  † 1.  Affirmative, positive. Obs. See AFFIRMABLY.

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  2.  Capable of being affirmed or asserted. Const. of.

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1611.  Cotgr., Affermable, affirmable, avouchable.

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1643.  Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., III. 116. What is truely affirmable of the one, is of the other too.

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1824.  Coleridge, Aids to Refl. (1848), I. 228. The grounds on which the fact of an evil inherent in the will is affirmable.

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1846.  Mill, Logic, VI. x. § 5 (1868), II. 517. This seems to be affirmable of the conclusions arrived at.

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