multipliable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unmultipliable adjective
- unmultiplicable adjective
Etymology
Origin of multipliable
First recorded in 1615–25; multiply 1 + -able
Example Sentences
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But had the tendency to increase his numbers been out of all proportion to the means provided by nature, and infinitely multipliable by art, for the subsistence of human beings, how could this magnificent march have moved on?
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See how curiously the questions multiply on us. 1st, Is engraving to be only considered as cut work? 2d, For present designs multipliable without cutting, by the sunshine, what methods or instruments of drawing will be best?
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In the fine plates of this period, you have thus the united powers of the pen and pencil, and both absolutely secure and multipliable.
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It is not like a single picture or a single wall painting; this multipliable work will pass through thousand thousand hands, strengthen and inform innumerable souls, if it be worthy; vivify the folly of thousands if unworthy.
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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.
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