a. [f. WRITE v. + -ABLE.]
1. That may be written; capable of being reduced to or set down in writing.
1782. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 30 Oct. The talk was by no means writable; but very pleasant.
1799. Coleridge, in Sandford, T. Poole (1888), I. 300. I go to the famous Harz Mountains … to see the mines…. On my return I will write you all that is writable.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. ii. 97. All written or writable law respecting the arts is for the childish and ignorant.
2. Suitable for writing with.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Lett. Horne (1877), I. 267. I am turning this pen round and round to find a writable side to it.
