Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being contemplated or thought about.
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Examples
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But the sheer amount of leverage involved is also a huge issue — the original securitization might rest on some at least contemplable risk level in terms of default, but the top level derivatives might lose close to 100% of their value on tiny increases in the default rates.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Outstanding Securitization Article by Kenneth E. Scott and John Taylor 2009
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Likewise, I probably did not confess to doubting whether any girl had ever been sexually attracted to me or even found me contemplable as boyfriend material at close range and in good lighting for more than ten seconds, if ever.
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The bodie of this vessell was all run ouer with a Vine, the stringes and vaines whereof, and small curling twists, were of Topas, farre better then is founde in the Ilande Ophiadis, the leaues of fine smaragd, and the braunches of Amethist, to the sight most beautifull, and to the vnderstanding woonderfull contemplable.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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But time is no more predicable of eternal reason than of will; but not of will; for if a will be at all, it must be 'ens spirituale'; and this is the first negative definition of spiritual -- whatever having true being is not contemplable in the forms of time and space.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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