a. [f. ASSIGN v. + -ABLE.]
1. That may be assigned or allotted; legally transferable.
1809. Tomlins, Law Dict., s.v. Assignment, A bond is assignable for a valuable consideration paid.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., § 4. 66. A fixed number of scholarships … assignable among the colleges.
2. That may be designated or specified.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1839), 178. Being thus the Alpha … he was before any time assignable.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 239. No assignable power … could lift one of these stones.
1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., I. 82. Without assignable limit.
3. That may be referred as belonging to or originating in; attributable.
1673. Lady’s Call., I. ii. § 15. The correcting of som particular passions are more immediately assignable to other virtues.
1869. Phillips, Vesuv., viii. 235. Thus three relations of volcanic energy are assignable to geographical conditions.
4. That may be alleged as accounting for.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1839), 36. There is no other cause assignable of the rain but God.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., I. i. 8. In the truly great poets … there is a reason assignable … for every word.
