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Definition of Effable
1. a. Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.
Definition of Effable
1. Adjective. (archaic) able to be spoken of; able to be expressed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Effable
1. capable of being uttered or expressed [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effable
Literary usage of Effable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Politics and Economics of Aristotle by Aristotle, John Gillies (1853)
"And the diameters of effable even squares, when multiplied into themselves, ...
But the diameters of effable odd square numbers are in power double of the ..."
2. Theoretic Arithmetic, in Three Books: Containing the Substance of All that by Thomas Taylor (1816)
"Again, when he says, " that the number 1000000 consists of a hundred numbers from
effable diameters of pentads, each being deficient by unity, ..."
3. Orpheus by George Robert Stow Mead (1896)
"For that which is perfectly apparent and effable cannot be conjoined with the
perfectly ineffable, but it is requisite that the progression if intelligible ..."
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