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Definition of Scrutable
1. a. Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.
Definition of Scrutable
1. Adjective. (informal) understandable, comprehensible ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrutable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrutable
Literary usage of Scrutable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fundamentals Or Bases of Belief: Concerning Man, God, and the Correlation of by Thomas Griffith (1871)
"... is as much scrutable by the way in which He acts to us as you are scrutable
to me, or other men are scrutable to me, by ways and acts. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"scrutable PROVIDENCES. WHEN, the other day, a juror in one of the Westfield suits
... Is not this a Providence so scrutable that he who runs may read ? ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1879)
"I qualify my statement by the word scrutable, because it is entirely outside the
pale of scientific research to speculate upon possible inscrutable ends in ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1879)
"I qualify my statement by the word scrutable, because it is entirely outside the
pale of scientific research to ..."
5. Lectures on Popular Education: Delivered to the Edinburgh Philosophical by George Combe (1848)
"Instead of a system of mysterious fatalism it will be one of causation, regular
in its action, scrutable in its principles, designedly adapted to the ..."
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