a. [f. CIPHER + -ABLE.] Capable of being ciphered, summed up, etc.
1863. Buffalo Weekly Express, 5 May, 2/1. Will the World please refer to its elementary arithmetic, or apply to some little boy in the primary departments of the public schools of New York, to ascertain whether the sum is cipherable or not under these conditions?
1888. H. James, Reverberator, ii. 21. Mr. Dosson … was a man of the simplest composition, a character as cipherable as a sum of two figures.
