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discoverable, a.|dɪˈskʌvərəb(ə)l|
[f. discover v. + -able.]
Capable of being discovered or found out; discernible, perceptible, ascertainable.
1572in Sir F. Drake revived (1628) 24 Some fit place..where we might safely leave our Ship at Anchor, not discouerable by the enemy. 1628Earle Microcosm., A weake Man (Arb.) 59 One discouerable in all sillinesses to all men but himselfe. 1736Butler Anal. ii. i. Wks. 1874 I. 154 Containing an account of a dispensation of things not discoverable by reason. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 183 ⁋8 Its effects..are everywhere discoverable. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. x. 413 The report..is no longer extant. Bonner was directed by Queen Mary to destroy all discoverable copies of it. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 284 Provoking it by every means discoverable. |
