a. [f. TRACE v.1 + -ABLE.] Capable of being traced (in various senses of the vb.).
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. ix. 65. Lest we should be traceable by her direction.
1793. Rennell, in Phil. Trans., LXXXIII. 184. The gulf stream … is discharged with such velocity, through the Straits of Bahama, that its motion is traceable through the Atlantic, to the Bank of Newfoundland.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., xxii. (ed. 2), 423. If attraction be … a primordial property of matter, not dependent upon, or traceable to, any other material cause.
1854. W. Osburn, Mon. Hist. Egypt, II. ii. 55. Fragments on which the remains of hieroglyphics were yet traceable.
1874. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. viii. (1879), 372. In her family a very characteristic type of handwriting is traceable through five generations.
Hence Traceability, Traceableness, the quality of being traceable; Traceably adv., in a manner or degree that can be traced.
1847. Webster, Traceableness.
1855. Tait’s Mag., XXII. 97. Slightly monotonous, and traceably imitative too, this young melodist yet runs his fingers over the strings with a … power that instantly make[s] him a marked man.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., ii. 16. There is, recognizably and traceably, a time when … many of our words came into use.
1891. Cent. Dict., Traceability.
1896. Law Times, C. 436/2. The doctrine of following trust money depends upon its traceability.
