sortably
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sortably (comparative more sortably, superlative most sortably)
- (obsolete) suitably
- 1833, Edwin Atherstone, The Sea Kings in England:
- Her husband, who had left the room immediately after ushering in the warrior and his sooty burthen, entered as she ws about to speak; and, in answer to her appeal to him, declared that the knight "could i' no fashion be put up sortably with the like o' them: sorry was he; but welcome should he be to a share of the supper, and a draught at the ale-jug;
- 1891, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes - Volume 2, page 385:
- And that peradventure examples in grammar, rethorike, and logike, might more fitly and sortably be taken from elsewhere , than from so sacred and holy a subject , as also the arguments of theatres , plots of plaies , and grounds of publike spectacles:
- Such that (something) can be sorted.
- 1959, Albert G. Blanchette and Victor G. Ristvedt, “2906276: Coin Sorter”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1294:
- peripheral limit means to sortably remove the coins from the disc while in a "single file" on the disc, in accordance with their denominational value.
- 1966, Herbert Goldhor, Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of .Data Processing, page 49:
- First of all, since it has been postulated that it is non-standardizability that sets off the discursive from the sortably standardizable, we must try to see what it is, as far as order is concerned, that constitutes discourse.