Definition of Explicable

1. Adjective. Capable of being explicated or accounted for. "Explicable behavior"


Definition of Explicable

1. a. Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Definition of Explicable

1. Adjective. Able to be explained. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Explicable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Explicable

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Literary usage of Explicable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Impulsive acts explicable through nervous organization. An impulsive act exhibits in its particular form the past experience and training of the individual. ..."

2. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by Ecole littéraire de Montréal, Charles Gill, William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"explicable by Calvin's experience in Geneva, 1536- 1559. Nature of the Consistory established in Geneva, 1541. The Consistory claims the function of ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"This conclusion is not vitiated by the difference« which exist between these codices, since many of them are explicable by mistakes of the eye and the ear, ..."

4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The doctrine that all organic phenomena have efficient causes or antecedents, in terms of which they are explicable. Biological determinism asserts that, ..."

5. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1896)
"... but the passage of an inaudible beat into an audible difference-tone seems to be more easily explicable upon the basis of Helmholtz's theory. ..."

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