creable

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin creabilis, from creare (to create). See create.

Adjective

creable (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Capable of being created.
    • (Can we date this quote by Isaac Watts and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      [] it cannot be a created substance; because we cannot conceive it creable or annihilable []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for creable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)