creable

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English

Etymology

From Latin creābilis, from creō (create). See create.

Pronunciation

Adjective

creable (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Capable of being created.
    Synonym: creatable
    • 1733, I[saac] W[atts], “Essay I. A Fair Enquiry and Debate Concerning Space. Sect V. Space Cannot be God.”, in Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects, , London: Richard Ford , and Richard Hett , →OCLC, page 19:
      [Space] cannot be a created Subſtance; becauſe vve cannot conceive it creable or annihilable; and therefore it carries vvith it an Idea of neceſſary Exiſtence; []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for creable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)