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Definition of Confirmable
1. Adjective. Capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation.
Definition of Confirmable
1. a. That may be confirmed.
Definition of Confirmable
1. Adjective. Capable of being checked, verifiable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confirmable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confirmable
Literary usage of Confirmable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Decisions of the Court of Session: From 1681 to 1691 by Roger Hog of Harcarse, Scotland Court of Session (1757)
"... March 1682, Earl of Kintore contra Tolquhon. not confirmable ; and the heir's
election makes what he ..."
2. Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the by Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, George Ticknor Curtis (1863)
"The original grant was held not confirmable under the Florida treaty and acts
... It was held, that the grant waa not confirmable under the treaty and acts ..."
3. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"Xv. ties is not faith, but mere philosophy: many things are true in divinity,
which are neither inducible by reason nor confirmable by sense ; and many ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... which are neither inducible by reason, nor confirmable by sense; ... many things
in Philosophy confirmable by sense, yet not inducible by reason. ..."
5. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"For if we hold that all substantive terms are confirmable by both the sensational
and the social testing—the former being the final reference and ..."
6. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"Many things are true in divinity, which are neither inducible by reason nor
confirmable by sense; and many things in philosophy confirmable by sense, ..."
7. Social Life Under the Stuarts by Elizabeth Godfrey, Jessie Bedford (1904)
"Many things are ' true in divinity, which are neither inducible by reason ' nor
confirmable by sense ; and many things in philo- ' sophy confirmable by ..."
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