a. Also 8–9 -ible. [f. prec. + -ABLE.]

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  That may be extracted: a. gen. (cf. esp. senses 3, 4 of the vb.). b. Of a passage in a book, etc.: Suitable for extraction; quotable. c. Sc. Law. Of a judgment, etc.: Ready to be copied out for execution.

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1675.  Grew, Anat. Plants, Lect. vi. ii. § 2 (1682), 282. Their tastable parts [are] less easily extractable by the Tongue.

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1776.  Bentham, Ch. Eng. (1818), 302. The profit extractible out of the expense.

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1825.  [see EXTRACT v. 3 b].

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1835.  Blackw. Mag., XXXVIII. 380. We will now seek a humorous extractable passage.

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1868.  Act 31–32 Vict., c. 100 § 63. The Court … shall … pronounce Judgment … and such Judgment shall be extractible in common Form. Ibid., c. 101 § 51. The decree for such expenses shall be extractable by the extractor of the Court of Session.

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1891.  Times, 13 July, 11/3. The quantity of sugar extractable from the root [of beet].

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