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Just a thought, but maybe Miami Trauma will be first introduced on a segment of CSI: Miami when Horatio Cane has to visit the trauma ward in the wake of a devastating accident .... and where he meets up with the effable but mysterious Dr Northam (please let him be British) mandyK Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05: 46 PM EST

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Utterable; capable of being explained; explicable. Barrow. He did, upon his suggestion, accommodate thereunto his universal language, to make his character effable. Wallis, Defence of the Royal Society (1678), p. 16.

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Goddamn poets for being capable of of being in mysteries, uncertainties, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact or reason, for not making the inneffable effable by the final line. — PoetryFoundation.org
Just a thought, but maybe Miami Trauma will be first introduced on a segment of CSI: Miami when Horatio Cane has to visit the trauma ward in the wake of a devastating accident .... and where he meets up with the effable but mysterious Dr Northam (please let him be British) mandyK Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05: 46 PM EST — Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
Whether however is it known and effable, or unknown and ineffable? — Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
These effable and ineffable impressions — The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow