solvable
English
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Alternative forms
- solvible (obsolete)
Etymology
solve + -able. Doublet of soluble.
Adjective
solvable
- Capable of being solved.
- Synonym: soluble
- Antonyms: unsolvable, insolvable, insoluble
- a solvable problem
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, London: William Shrowsbery, “De homine,” Chapter 2, p. 56,[2]
- Intellective Memory, which I call an act of the intellective faculty because it is wrought by it, though I do not inquire how or where, because it is not solvible:
- 1732, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Essays upon Several Subjects in Law, Edinburgh, “Beneficium cedendarum actionum,” p. 19,[3]
- Questions of this Nature may be easily solvable in the simple Cases.
- 1856, Abraham Lincoln, Speech delivered before the first Republican State Convention of Illinois, Bloomington, 29 May, 1856, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley (ed.), The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, Volume 2, p. 271,[4]
- It is a very strange thing, and not solvable by any moral law that I know of, that if a man loses his horse, the whole country will turn out to help hang the thief; but if a man but a shade or two darker than I am is himself stolen, the same crowd will hang one who aids in restoring him to liberty.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 17, p. 211,[5]
- Would Mr. Farfrae stay in Casterbridge despite his words and her father’s dismissal? His occult breathings to her might be solvable by his course in that respect.
- 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 97,[6]
- This is a mystery that is solvable with a phone call.
- (obsolete) Capable of being dissolved or liquefied.
- Synonym: soluble
- Antonyms: unsolvable, insolvable, insoluble
- 1664, John Chandler (translator), Van Helmont’s Works, London: Lodowick Lloyd, A Treatise of Fevers, Chapter 8, p. 971,[7]
- […] they administer Pearles, and Corrals being beaten to dust or dissolved in distilled vinegar, or the juice of limons, and again dryed, and solvable in any potable liquour:
- (obsolete) Able to pay one's debts.
- Synonym: solvent
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-History of Britain, London: John Williams, Section 4, p. 131,[8]
- […] although imprisonment was imposed by law on persons not solvable, yet officers were unwilling to cast them into goale,
- 1703, John Dennis, A Proposal for Putting a Speedy End to the War, London: Daniel Brown and Andrew Bell, p. 19,[9]
- The Government is solvable in case of Loss, whereas private Men often fail;
- (obsolete, rare) Capable of being paid and discharged.[1]
- solvable obligations
Related terms
Translations
capable of being solved
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capable of being dissolved
References
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin solvere with -able.
Adjective
solvable (plural solvables)
Further reading
- “solvable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.