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  • adjective Capable of being multiplied.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being multiplied.

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  • adjective Capable of being multiplied.

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  • adjective Capable of being multiplied.

Etymologies

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multiply +‎ -able

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Examples

  • You think they're going to vote for a Republican like McCain, who allies himself with the criminal, recidivistic regime of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the most multipliable impeachable presidency in American history?

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • You think they're going to vote for a Republican like McCain, who allies himself with the criminal, recidivistic regime of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the most multipliable impeachable presidency in American history?

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Bread of flour is good: but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book; and the family must be poor indeed which, once in their lives, cannot, for such multipliable barley-loaves, pay their baker's bill.

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • Bread of flour is good: but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book; and the family must be poor indeed which, once in their lives, cannot, for such multipliable barley-loaves, pay their baker’s bill.

    Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries 1909

  • In the fine plates of this period, you have thus the united powers of the pen and pencil, and both absolutely secure and multipliable.

    Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

  • Lastly, there is a continually increasing demand for popular art, multipliable by the printing-press, illustrative of daily events, of general literature, and of natural science.

    Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

  • Lastly, there is a continually increasing demand for popular art, multipliable by the printing-press, illustrative of daily events, of general literature, and of natural science.

    Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

  • But enough of illustrations: although these, multipliable to any amount, might bring, each in its own case, some specific tendency to throw light upon the path we mean to tread: it is wiser perhaps, as implying more confidence in the reader's intellectual powers, to leave other analogous cases to the suggestion of his own mind; also, not to vex him in every instance with the intrusive finger of an obvious application.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • But enough of illustrations: although these, multipliable to any amount, might bring, each in its own case, some specific tendency to throw light upon the path we mean to tread: it is wiser perhaps, as implying more confidence in the reader's intellectual powers, to leave other analogous cases to the suggestion of his own mind; also, not to vex him in every instance with the intrusive finger of an obvious application.

    Probabilities : An aid to Faith Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Thus far I have not mentioned speech, not perhaps the most inestimable of human gifts, but, if it is not that, it is at least the endowment, which makes man social, by which principally we impart our sentiments to each other, and which changes us from solitary individuals, and bestows on us a duplicate and multipliable existence.

    Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831

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