a. Also 9 -ible. [f. TRANSFER v. + -ABLE, on English analogies, as in transferring, barrable. Transferrible is a hybrid spelling between transferrable and analogical L. *transferibilis. See also TRANSFERABLE.] Capable of being or fit to be transferred.
α. 1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 30. The offices … are alienable, communicable, and transferrable.
1714. Act 1 Geo. I., c. 21 § 19. That the said Capital or Joint Stock … shall be Assignable and Transferrable or Devisable.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. viii. 328. A new species of money, always ready to be employed in any beneficial undertaking, by means of it’s transferrable quality.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., x. Sin was made a transferrable chattel.
1878. Abney, Photogr., xxvi. (1881), 176. Transferrable prints.
β. 1832. Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. 171. We believe the mean annual temperature of one zone to be transferrible to another.
1875. Poste, Gaius, II. § 21. Similarly transferrible are estates in provincial lands.
Hence Transferrableness, the quality of being transferrable.
1804. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., II. 390. In reply to the objection of the transferrableness of machinery.
