a. [f. TRANSLATE v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being translated.
1745. H. Walpole, Corr. (1846), II. 15. I … without having recourse to the Countess’s translatable periods, am pleased with his company.
1830. Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, I. 88. Modes of expression scarcely translatable into the only technical language in which that mind is wont to think.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., viii. 164. What is really best in any book is translatable.
Hence Translatability, Translatableness.
1867. Ludlow, Fleeing to Tarshish, 115. To carry on his cogitations for him, with their accustomed wondrous translatability by the imagination.
1882. Athenæum, 4 March, 278/1. We own to a certain scepticism as to La Fontaine’s translatableness.
1911. Munro, Fundamentals, 31. The Translatability of Scripture.
