a. Also 6 extinguyssible. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] Able to be extinguished (in senses of the vb.).
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., VI. iii. Who that walketh the waye of derkenes … shall have payne nothyng extinguyssible.
1667. in Phil. Trans., II. 609. The light of the former is readily extinguishable by Compression.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1832. Lewis, Use & Ab. Pol. Terms, iii. 31. Not extinguishable by any law.
1886. Law Times, LXXX. 213/2. Insect life is not extinguishable by scrubbing.
