conceivable

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No more is it conceivable that when the Greek word baptizoo (to immerse) was used, it meant to cleanse by sprinkling (_rantizoo_), or when the word rantizoo (to sprinkle) was used, it meant to cleanse by immersing (_baptizoo_).

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  1. Capable of being conceived, thought, or understood; supposable; thinkable. Whereby any conceivable weight may be moved by any conceivable power. Bp. Wilkins. If … those propositions only are conceivable of which subject and predicate are capable of unity of representation, then is the subjectivity of space inconceivable. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol. The inconceivable by us, but still conceivable by others, has a much closer affinity to the conceivable by us than it has to the absolutely contradictory. Ferrier, Institutes, Int., § 69. It is conceivable that the general pattern of an organ might become so much obscured as to be finally lost. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 392. No conceivable decay of Christianity could bring back a primitive way of thinking which had been outgrown long before Christianity appeared. J. R. Secley, Nat. Religion, p. 75.

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  • No more is it conceivable that when the Greek word baptizoo (to immerse) was used, it meant to cleanse by sprinkling (_rantizoo_), or when the word rantizoo (to sprinkle) was used, it meant to cleanse by immersing (_baptizoo_). —  To Infidelity and Back
  • This was surely conceivable--more conceivable, that is, than any other hypothesis.... Besides, what had it all got to do with Amy Within a week of his original experience, skepticism was dominant. —  The Necromancers
  • It is conceivable, therefore, that Yaquita and Minha should attach some importance to the event. —  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
  • Vatican, and the most permanent institution conceivable was the Pope. —  The Heart of Rome
  • This is a thing which is hardly conceivable -- it seems hardly imaginable -- yet it is so. —  Lectures and Essays
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  1. = French concevable = Spanish concebible; as conceive + -able.
 

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