Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a separable manner.

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  • adverb In a manner that can be separated.

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  • adverb with possibility of separation or individuation

Etymologies

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separable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • However, when a person sees that there is a goldfinch in front of him, his knowledge is not derived as an inference from the ˜separably describable™ visual impressions he has in seeing the goldfinch, but this is an instance of knowledge through observation nonetheless.

    Action Wilson, George 2007

  • What Anscombe explicitly denies is that agents generally know of the positions or movements of their own bodies by means of ˜separably describable sensations™ that serve as criteria for their judgements about the narrowly physical performance of their bodies.

    Action Wilson, George 2007

  • From the basis and pathway points of view of disciples, however, a mentor's actions are knowable and comprehensible only with a mind that apprehends conventionally true phenomena nonsimultaneously with and separably from self-voidness and the clear light mind.

    Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 16 Blocks in Opening Oneself to a Spiritual Mentor 2000

  • To understand you as speaking I must under - stand the facts you state and to understand the facts you state I must understand you as speaking; so in - separably are the two modes or logics connected.

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • And the unfortunate thing is that at present the word ‘progress’ and the word ‘Socialism’ are linked in-separably in almost everyone’s mind.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • It transforms the power that was keeping things together with a power driving separably each component part: the effect of an explosion.

    Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • But then, what was he to do with this little waif from the heart's tropics, -- once tampered with, in an hour of mad dalliance, and now adhering in-separably to his life?

    Malbone: an Oldport Romance Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

  • Directing both these and those are the spiritual substances: whether altogether conjunct, like the souls of the brutes; or separably conjunct, like rational souls; or altogether separate, like the celestial spirits; which the philosophers call Intelligences, we

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • You see they cannot be severed; and that a man cannot possibly love his brother aright, if he love not God: therefore the love of God must needs draw in the love of our brother, as a thing in separably connected with it.

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • Since we had all bought our tickets separably so none of us were sitting next to each other.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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