objectable

English

Etymology

object +‎ -able

Adjective

objectable (comparative more objectable, superlative most objectable)

1. (rare, possibly archaic) Capable of being put forward as an objection.
   • 1656, Discourse of Artificial Handsomeness, attributed to Jeremy Taylor, page 145 (quoted in Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language and The Century Dictionary):

     It is as objectable against all those things which either native beauty or art affords.

   • 1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England, Book I, chapter XIV, page 128:

     Whether any thing truly objectable against any Bishop or Minister of England (as scandalously weak, wicked and unworthy) may not with as much more truth be objected against their severest enemies.

   • 1735, History of England, volume 3, page 205:

     The Commission granted to Kidd had nothing in it objectable in point of Law, [...]

2. (rare) Capable of being made into or treated as an object (especially by a computer program or programming language).
   • 2006, Aurélio Campilho, Mohamed Kamel, Image Analysis and Recognition: Third International Conference, →ISBN:

     Here we use the position of each region inside the image, its size, structure and adjacency relations to the other prominent regions or to the background. First we apply a so-called preprocessing step, in which we separate objectable images from non-objectable ones with the meaning of whether or not the given image contains prominent regions.

3. Misconstruction of objectionable.
   • 1701, The Whigs. Thirty Two Queries, and as Many of the Tories in Answer to Them. With a Speech Made at the General Quarter-sessions Held for the County of [Gloucester]. As Also Another Learned Speech Made at the Town-Hall of [Reading]. To which is Added, a Copy of a Late Printed Paper, Pretended to be a Vindication of the Earl of Rochester, page 31:

     Nothing surely which they did, was more objectable than their Proceedings against Magdalen College[.]

Further reading

• “objectable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.