powerable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]powerable (comparative more powerable, superlative most powerable)
- Capable of being powered.
- This toy is powerable by batteries.
- (obsolete) Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.
- 1860, John Young, The Province of Reason:
- The infinite God, He who is strictly, properly infinite, knows all the knowable and can effect all the powerable.
- (obsolete) Capable of exerting power; powerful.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- you may see how powerable Time is in altering tongues
References
[edit]- “powerable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.