declinable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of declinable
1520–30; < Middle French, equivalent to decliner to decline + -able -able; or decline + -able
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When these occur in the inflections of declinable words, serving to indicate the Root, or in derivatives, serving to point out the primitive word, the omission of them might, on the whole, be unadvisable.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
The same nouns may be partly declinable and partly indeclinable, and in some of their cases may have fallen out of use.
From Cratylus by Benjamin Jowett
As for t'one and t'other, they should be 'tone and 'tother, being elisions for that one and that other, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
If the infinitive mood is really a declinable substantive, none of our grammarians have placed it in the right chapter; except that bold contemner of all grammatical and literary authority, Oliver B. Peirce.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Hence the last vowel of the nominative, or in general of any declinable word, may be called the characteristic vowel.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
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