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come-at-ability

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Attainableness; accessibility.

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  • Now, if a man was to sit down coolly, and consider within himself the make, the shape, the construction, come-at-ability, and convenience of all the parts which constitute the whole of that animal, called Woman, and compare them analogically — I never understood rightly the meaning of that word, — quoth my uncle Toby. —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Now, if a man was to sit down coolly, and consider within himself the make, the shape, the construction, come-at-ability, and convenience of all the parts which constitute the whole of that animal, called Woman, and compare them analogically — I never understood rightly the meaning of that word, — quoth my uncle Toby. —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

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