a. In 7 extendable. [f. EXTEND + -IBLE.]
1. Capable of being extended or stretched out; capable of. being enlarged in length, area, or duration, or in range or scope of meaning or operation; = EXTENSIBLE.
1477. Norton, Ord. Alch., v. in Ashm. (1652), 69. [Sweet smell] is in Aier more penetrative, And is more extendible.
1643. Answ. Ld. Digby’s Apol., 58. The meaning of some words of great latitude, and very extendible in the said Protestation.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xviii. 263. VVarrants for Vagrants are not extendable to Knight-Errants.
1693. J. Beaumont, On Burnet’s Th. Earth, II. 121. The most ductile and extendible of all Bodies.
1731. Arbuthnot, Aliments (1732), 42. Such Tubes as have often suffered this Force grow rigid, and hardly more extendible therefore.
1816. Q. Rev., XVI. 49. The elastic and extendible nature of those links in the moral chain.
1832. in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
2. Law. Subject to seizure under a writ of extent; liable to be levied upon for debt, etc.
1622. Callis, Stat. Sewers (1647), 165. The Lands Intailed were not extendable.
a. 1626. Bacon, Max. & Uses Com. Law (1630), 55, marg. Not extendable for the Debts of the partie after his death.
1755. in Johnson.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), II. 139. An equity of redemption is … not extendible by a judgement creditor.
1832. in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
