assignable

assignable [uh-sahy-nuh-buh l] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for assignable on Thesaurus.com adjective

1. capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.
2. capable of being attributed: This work is assignable to a 12th-century poet.
3. Law. capable of being assigned.

Origin of assignable Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at assign, -able Related formsas·sign·a·bil·i·ty, nounas·sign·a·bly, adverbnon·as·sign·a·bil·i·ty, nounnon·as·sign·a·ble, adjectivenon·as·sign·a·bly, adverbun·as·sign·a·ble, adjectiveun·as·sign·a·bly, adverb Related Words for assignable transferable, debatable, interchangeable, negotiable, assignable, transactional, exchangeable, conveyable Examples from the Web for assignable Historical Examples of assignable

Let us see whether any such infinity of evidence is assignable.

Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

Herbert Spencer

No motive was assignable for the terrible act, except ill-health.

A Diplomat in Japan

Ernest Mason Satow

Of him there is no assignable master; neither Hogarth nor Gillray.

George Cruikshank

W. H. Chesson

There was no assignable cause for his going, and he resisted it as a vagary.

Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science

Hudson Tuttle

When we seek the infinitely small, we divide, and call that infinitely small which is less than the least assignable quantity.

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 6 (of 10)

Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)