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Definition of Construable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Construable
Literary usage of Construable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Theism by Borden Parker Bowne (1879)
"such imposition by demanding that a phrase represent a construable thought as
well as a combination of letters or sounds. The attempts to prove that reason ..."
2. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"Ct. 789, holding marine insurance policy construable of place where loss to be
paid; New Jersey Steam Nav. Co. v. ants' Bank, 6 How. 421, 12 L. Ed. 498, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society by Cambridge Philological Society (1884)
"... is generally condemned and is shown to be incorrect by the order of the words,
which requires an adjective construable with the datives. ..."
4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"... qualities' of matter, this ' something operating upon our senses' must be
something solid and extended, and must be construable in terms of motion *. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... construable, he so misplaces his nouns, verbs, and parts of speech generally
that he might pass for a half-educated foreigner rather than for an ..."
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