Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being confined or restricted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
confined
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Examples
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Even the AAnn realized that and limited their occasional depredations, usually in thranx territory, to isolated, confinable piratical acts.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Even the AAnn realized that and limited their occasional depredations, usually in thranx territory, to isolated, confinable piratical acts.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Unlike other aspects of cognitive function, emotions have never been readily confinable to one hemisphere.
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Although, by the communication everywhere, the ground-work of every art whatever is now no longer confinable to any one nation, though the contrary is the case, and that the knowledge necessary circulates freely, and is extended by a regular sort of system, in periodical publications of various descriptions, yet the manner of turning that knowledge to advantage does not, by any means, seem equally easy to communicate.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged William Playfair 1791
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