a. Also 7 -able. [f. as prec. + -IBLE.]

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  1.  Capable of being expressed.

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1605.  R. Carew, in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden), 100. In some [words] we buylde others not expressable in their mother tongue.

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a. 1628.  Preston, Serm. bef. his Majestie (1630), 43. As farre as it is expressable, we will explaine unto you.

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1677.  Gilpin, Dæmonol., II. ix. 403. They are under an expressible sense of Divine Wrath.

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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.

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1851.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., II. III. II. iii. § 26. Michael Angelo held the imagination to be entirely expressible in rock.

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1875.  Jevons, Money, 70. Easily expressible in terms of the unit.

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  † 2.  Able to express oneself. Obs.

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1627–77.  Feltham, Resolves, II. xli. 240. In Loue and Thanks … tis in a Mans own power to be expressible.

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