Transportability

[f. next + -ITY.] Capability of being transported; in early quots. referring to translation of ministers (see TRANSPORT v. 2 a, TRANSPORTATION 2 a).

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1651. Reg. Comm. Gen. Assembly, 24 Feb. (S.H.S.), III. 538. The motion anent Mr. George his transportabilitie is waved.

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1676. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., xi. (1848), 344. Mr. Blair supplicated the Presbytery of S^t Andrews for an act of transportability.

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1846. in Worcester.

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1883. Century Mag., July, 430/2. The fever’s … transportability was fearfully proven.

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1901. N. Amer. Rev., Feb., 222. The Transvaal war has shown the transportability … of the heaviest artillery…. The Boers transported their ‘Long Tom’ as they might have transported a piano.

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