a. Also 7 -able. [f. as prec. + -IBLE.]
1. Capable of being expressed.
1605. R. Carew, in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden), 100. In some [words] we buylde others not expressable in their mother tongue.
a. 1628. Preston, Serm. bef. his Majestie (1630), 43. As farre as it is expressable, we will explaine unto you.
1677. Gilpin, Dæmonol., II. ix. 403. They are under an expressible sense of Divine Wrath.
1794. Sir W. Jones, Orthogr. Asiatic Words, Wks. 1799, I. 192. This is a diphthong composed of our first and third vowels, and expressible, therefore, by them.
1851. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., II. III. II. iii. § 26. Michael Angelo held the imagination to be entirely expressible in rock.
1875. Jevons, Money, 70. Easily expressible in terms of the unit.
† 2. Able to express oneself. Obs.
162777. Feltham, Resolves, II. xli. 240. In Loue and Thanks tis in a Mans own power to be expressible.