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Definition of Come-at-able

1. Adjective. Capable of being attained or accomplished. "Art is not something that is come-at-able by dint of study"

2. Adjective. Capable of being reached or attained. "Both oil and coal are there but not in getatable locations"

Definition of Come-at-able

1. Adjective. easily accessible ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Come-at-able

combustion engine combustion equivalent combustion gases combustion reaction combustionary combustions combustious combustive combustor combustors

combusts come-all-you come-around come-at-able (current term) come-hither come-hithers come-outer come-over come-to-Jesus come a cropper

come a long way come about come across come after come again come alive

Literary usage of Come-at-able

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

1. British Farmer's Magazine (1863)
"He referred to tbe desire expressed by him that the Journal were more " come-at-able." lit: really thought the arrangements under which ever; ..."

2. The Theory of Our National Existence: As Shown by the Action of the by John Codman Hurd (1881)
"The sovereign power must be come-at-able. And the English have made it so." Bagehot's English Constitution, p. 102. 2 Mr. Jameson says, Const. Conv. p. ..."

3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"The poultry was not so come-at-able as their neighbours desired.—T. Brown, Works, iv. 133. To be sure the best beer of all did not appear, For I've said ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1879)
"... the only one of poor Ralph's friends at all come-at-able, likely to have seen anything of him of late, or be able to comfort his mother with news of him ..."

5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1872)
"I shall only repeat that, if come-at-able, they are perfectly safe to ... over all that was come-at-able—about one half of the substance of the tumour. ..."

6. St. James's Magazine by S. C. Hall (1864)
"Clever, no doubt, but it jarred harshly upon the chord of pride. Still, twenty thousand pounds in diamonds, in a box easily come-at-able, sealed with the ..."

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