explicable

• Now, if Lord Byron knew that his wife had a deadly secret that she could tell, all this conduct is explicable: it is in the ordinary course of human nature. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
• Not altogether explicable is this extreme self-abnegation. —  Charles the Bold
• I cannot go to sleep without it, for fear I wake in Paradise and find it's all by with Doom and the native hills for me And by that he seemed to Montaiglon more explicable: it was the lover he was; the sentimentalist, the poet, knowing the ancient secret of the animate earth, taking his hills and valleys passionately to his heart. —  Doom Castle
• We have seen that every materialist doctrine is the expression of this idea, that physical phenomena are the only ones that are determined, measurable, explicable, and scientific. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
• Individual customs may be preserved simply as a matter of thoughtless habit; yet in general it is essential that these usages should be related to conscious intellectual life; so soon as they cease to be so explicable, they begin to pass into oblivion The chapters of this collection, therefore, will emphasize the doctrine that the essential elements of human nature continue to exist, however opposite may be the actions in which its operations are manifested. —  Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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