a. [f. FORTIFY v. + -ABLE; cf. F. fortifiable.] That may be fortified.

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1609.  Overbury, Observ. 17 Prov., Wks. (1856), 223. The nature of the countrey, every where fortifiable with water, the scituation of it, having behinde them the Baltique Sea.

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1755.  in Johnson.

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1886.  Ruskin, Præterita, I. vii. 207. Such being the quadrilateral plan of my fortifiable dispositions.

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