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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See inferable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inferable.

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  • adjective Obsolete form of inferable.

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Examples

  • This character of Brutus, as inferrible from the words thus interpreted, coincides with that given of him by Dionysius and others.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • That such would be their course is not only fairly inferrible from the views embodied in the Chicago Platform, and from the speeches made in the Chicago Convention, but it is what Mr. Pendleton, the Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, has said it is our duty to do so, so far as relates to acknowledging the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • That part, at least, of Condons and Clangibbon was likewise included is inferrible from the fact that, as late as the sixteenth century visitations, Kilworth, founded by Colman Maic Luachain, ranked as a parish in the diocese of Lismore.

    Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous

  • That part, at least, of Condons and Clangibbon was likewise included is inferrible from the fact that, as late as the sixteenth century visitations, Kilworth, founded by Colman Maic Luachain, ranked as a parish in the diocese of Lismore.

    Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914

  • The report is signed by Davie, Moore, Mebane, Blount, and Haywood, from which it is inferrible that Hargett and Williams did not act.

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

  • If each premise dealt with exactly half the Middle, thus barely distributing it between them, there would be no logical proposition inferrible.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • The engineer -- if we may apply the modern term -- was at length under fire of the besieged; still he kept on; only when he exhausted his supply of stakes did he retire, leaving it inferrible that the trench was to run through the opening in the cemetery to the bridge way before the gate.

    The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

  • What their doom is in its nature, what in its duration, is neither declared, nor inferrible from what is declared.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • Every sound, being a mark of a particular oscillatory motion, became a mark of everything which, by the laws of dynamics, was known to be inferrible from that motion; and everything which by those same laws was a mark of any oscillatory motion among the particles of an elastic medium, became a mark of the corresponding sound.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

  • This is inferrible from the answer of the Ministers, which is dated thirteen days after the first trial, and five days after the execution of a sentence then passed.

    Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838

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