Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being appointed or constituted; subject to appointment or decision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being appointed or constituted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
appointed .
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Examples
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"I'm electable, not appointable," he told CNN during the run for his bench seat.
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But we would be better off if the Easterbrooks or Calabreses of the world were appointable.
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“I serve, thou servest, we serve” — so prayeth all appointable virtue to the prince: that the merited star may at last stick on the slender breast!
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Much appointable virtue with scribe – fingers, and hardy sitting – flesh and waiting – flesh, blessed with small breast – stars, and padded, haunchless daughters.
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All lusts and vices are here at home; but here there are also the virtuous; there is much appointable appointed virtue: —
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The moon hath its court, and the court hath its moon – calves: unto all, however, that cometh from the court do the mendicant people pray, and all appointable mendicant virtues.
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The Daika reforms, copying the Tang polity called into existence a cabinet and a body of officials appointable or removable by the sovereign at will, each entrusted with definite functions.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The moon hath its court, and the court hath its moon-calves: unto all, however, that cometh from the court do the mendicant people pray, and all appointable mendicant virtues.
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Much appointable virtue with scribe-fingers, and hardy sitting-flesh and waiting-flesh, blessed with small breast-stars, and padded, haunchless daughters.
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"I serve, thou servest, we serve" - so prayeth all appointable virtue to the prince: that the merited star may at last stick on the slender breast!
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