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Definition of Surpassable
1. a. That may be surpassed.
Definition of Surpassable
1. Adjective. Able to be surpassed; able to be overcome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Surpassable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surpassable
| surmounters surmounting surmounts surmullet surmullets surname surnamed surnameless surnamer surnamers | surnames surnaming surnay surnominal surplice surpliced surplices surplus surplus value surplusage | surplusages |
Literary usage of Surpassable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: A Handbook of Mental Training Based on the by Nyanaponika A. Thera, Nyanaponika (1998)
"... state of mind as undeveloped;22 the surpassable mind as surpassable;23 the
unsurpassable mind as unsurpassable;24 the concentrated mind as concentrated; ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"... with an expedition quite impossible by any other means I am acquainted with,
and with an accuracy only surpassable by a regular trigonometrical survey ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"For convenience anil elegance it is not surpassable.— amount of useful information,
especially for emergencies, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"In humour, he will hardly surpass "Pickwick," simply because "Pickwick" is scarcely
surpassable in humour ..."
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