- a variation of nameable.
namable
Americanadjective
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We shall commence with Feelings, the simplest class of namable things; the term Feeling being of course understood in its most enlarged sense.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
It seemed to be acknowledged between them that anything namable would be done to obtain a share of this hoard.
From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon
She's into every namable thing in the neighborhood, an' not only into it, but generally at the head an' front of it, especially when it's mischief.
From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
The front yard was bare of every vestige of grass and contained a clutter that seemed to embrace everything namable, including a gravestone.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman
There her dust mingles with that of John Bunyan, of Daniel de Foe, of Isaac Watts, of William Blake, of Thomas Stothard, and a multitude of nameless or of most namable others.
From London Films by Howells, William Dean
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