a. Also 7 explanable. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] That may or can be explained, made clear, or accounted for; capable of interpretation.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 842. Many of these examples … are … but explanable by weake conjectures.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xxi. § 13. 268. Thus is it symbollically explainable and implieth purification and cleannesse.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 657. Virtues which have a worth of their own explainable to his understanding.
1842. Dickens, Lett. (1880), I. 77. I have an idea not easily explainable in writing.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 176. Phenomena … explainable by the action of the drug upon the sensitive nerves.
