descendable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]descendable (comparative more descendable, superlative most descendable)
- Alternative spelling of descendible
- 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, page 129:
- The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.