practisable
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English
Etymology
Adjective
practisable (comparative more practisable, superlative most practisable)
- Rare form of practicable.
- 1570 February 9, Iohn Dee, “To the Vnfained Lovers of Truthe, and Constant Studentes of Noble Sciences, ”, in Euclide of Megara [actually Euclid of Alexandria], translated by H Billingsley, The Elements of Geometrie , London: Iohn Daye, →OCLC, signature .ij., recto:
- And, foraſmuch, as, Addition, Subſtraction, Multiplication, Diuiſion and Extraction of Rotes, are the chief, and ſufficient partes of Arithmetike: which is, the Science that demonſtrateth the properties, of Numbers, and all operatiõs, in numbers to be performed: How often, therfore, theſe fiue ſundry ſortes of Operations, do, for the moſt part, of their execution, differre from the fiue operations of like generall property and name, in our Whole numbers practiſable, So often, (for a more diſtinct doctrine) we, vulgarly account and name it, an other kynde of Arithmetike.
- 1903 December 11, Henry James, “109. James to Howells”, in Michael Anesko, editor, Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, part 3 (Legends of Mastery), Letters and Documents, page 396:
- I am trying meanwhile to persuade myself, by mere naked force of thought, that it will be possible for me to come over & see you in the course of the coming year—there being nothing but that nudity, as yet, to make the idea practisable or invest the dream.
- 2008, Norbert Servos, translated by Stephen Morris, “‘Sometimes you stand there feeling pretty much naked’: How the Tanztheater Wuppertal works”, in Pina Bausch: Dance Theatre, Munich: K. Kieser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 224–225:
- Showing courage and persistence, Pina Bausch’s comrades have enabled a theatre as it ideally should be: a place where human affairs are continually re-negotiated, in which things are tried out and researched, rather than known in advance and dealt with routinely. One in which dance develops models for a possible understanding and a practisable way of living together: a life together which can accommodate differing mentalities and temperaments, showing respect for the individuality of each and every one.
References
- “practiceable, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
