a. [f. LIMIT v. + -ABLE.] That may be limited.

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1581.  Mulcaster, Positions, xliv. (1887), 287. When the childe knoweth his certainetie in all limitable circumstances.

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1643.  Herle, Answ. Ferne, 29. A power … limitable … not to be exercised within fifty dayes.

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1686.  J. Scott, Chr. Life (1747), III. 363. If they are limitable by any other Power, they are Subjects to that Power.

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  Hence Limitableness.

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1644.  Hunton, Vind. Treat. Monarchy, iv. 22. Neither its being supreme doth hinder its limitablenesse.

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1684–5.  H. More, Lett., 19 Jan., in Norris, Theory Love (1688), 154. Those terms Totum and Omne … imply also a comprehensibleness, limitableness, or exhaustibleness of the number of those parts.

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