generable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- generability noun
- generableness noun
- ungenerable adjective
Etymology
Origin of generable
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin generābil ( is ) creative, productive, equivalent to gener ( āre ) to beget, produce ( gender 2 ) + -ābilis -able
Example Sentences
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To be fair, Euronext do operate multiple venues with a lot of trading and they are reliable in generable.”
From BusinessWeek
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 Project Gutenberg
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."
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Then for as much as they were the first obseruers of all naturall causes & effects in the things generable and corruptible, and from thence mounted vp to search after the celestiall courses and influences, & yet penetrated further to know the diuine essences and substances separate, as is sayd before, they were the first Astronomers and Philosophists and Metaphisicks.
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The generable cosmos, therefore, was generated from the ingenerable Fire.
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