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Webster 1913 Edition


Investigable

In-ves′ti-ga-ble

,
Adj.
[L.
investigabilis
. See
Investigate
.]
Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research.
Hooker.

In-ves′ti-ga-ble

,
Adj.
[L.
investigabilis
. See
In-
not, and
Vestigate
.]
Unsearchable; inscrutable.
[Obs.]
So unsearchable the judgment and so
investigable
the ways thereof.
Bale.

Webster 1828 Edition


Investigable

INVEST'IGABLE

,
Adj.
[from investigate.] That may be investigated or searched out; discoverable by rational search or disquisition. The causes or reasons of things are sometimes investigable.

Definition 2024


investigable

investigable

English

Adjective

investigable (comparative more investigable, superlative most investigable)

  1. (chiefly philosophy and sciences) Capable of being investigated or studied.
    • 1869, Dr. Mann, "Statistical Notes Regarding the Colony of Natal," Journal of the Statistical Society of London, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 3:
      Indeed it is only possible to learn any thing at all of these really curious and interesting aboriginal people, by cross-examining living men, and ascertaining what they remember to have heard their fathers or their grandfathers say. The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of reliable and investigable tradition is an absolute blank.
    • 1954, James Bates, "A Model for the Science of Decision," Philosophy of Science, vol. 21, no. 4, p. 336:
      This, of course, leaves aside those in value theory who maintain that values are not investigable by science.
    • 2003, J. Andrew Mendelsohn, "The Microscopist of Modern Life," Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 18, p. 159:
      The Paris population might hold bacteriological and epidemiological secrets, but to Yersin they were investigable and knowable ones.

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