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Definition of Dateable
1. Adjective. That can be given a date. "A concrete and datable happening"
Definition of Dateable
1. Adjective. Suitable for dating (romantic outings); attractive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dateable
1. date [adj] - See also: date
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dateable
Literary usage of Dateable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide to an Exhibition of Drawings and Etchings by Rembrandt and Etchings by by Sidney Colvin (1899)
"A fair proportion indeed are strictly dateable, being sketches or studies ...
Among the early examples thus dateable are his youthful portrait of himself ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"4. dateable, a. See datable. da teatro (da ta-a'trö). [It.: da, < L. de, of;
teatro, < L. theatrum, theater.] In music, a direction signifying that a piece ..."
3. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"Of the forms here cited that are dateable, most may be referred to the third
century. This is noteworthy as regards the tenacity of the dialect in respect ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"That in days so remote as to be un- dateable, a Dravidian people driven from
their primitive home in the hills of the Indian Deccan made their way south via ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"... the objects in question occur lower down in the series than the lowest possible
lerei of the Nankin china, and consequently are not dateable by it. ..."
6. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"The principal Events that ensue, arrange themselves under Three Heads, this of
Porto - Bello being the first; and (by intense • smelting) are dateable as ..."
7. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"One 'happened to be Pharsalia, and the excellent conduct ot a 'night, dateable
accidentally about the end of May, the topic 'certain Centurion of the Tenth ..."
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