generable
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Etymology
Origin of generable
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin generābil ( is ) creative, productive, equivalent to gener ( āre ) to beget, produce ( see gender 2) + -ābilis -able
Example Sentences
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The generable cosmos, therefore, was generated from the ingenerable Fire.
From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow
It is the simultaneous separating and joining of the generable and the ingenerable, the two modes of the Self-generable; it is the link between personal and impersonal, bound and free, finite and infinite.
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by Mead, G. R. S.
The world moreover was generable, and had been generated from the manifested energy of the Fire.
From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow
The system would not run down until all the kinetic energy had been converted into heat, and all the heat generable had been dissipated.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
Second, "Those who claim that life and everything, besides the bare substance of matter, or extended bulk, is merely accidental, generable, or corruptible, rising out of some mixture or modification of matter."
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
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