Middle English Dictionary Entry
imāǧināble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | imāǧināble adj. |
| Etymology | L imāginābilis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Capable of being conceived or imagined.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.4.219 : Resoun..comprehendith the thingis ymaginable and sensible.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.4.226 : How so that this knowynge [of the nature of man] is universel, yit is ther no wyght that ne wot wel that a man is a thing ymaginable and sensible.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.310 : Man is a beest, two-footed, resonable..Ymaginable and sensible is it yit.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)1558 : Our stone conteyned euery gree of all composicions founde in werke of kynde, and of all composicions Imaginable be mynde.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)120/144 : But the presence everlasting dureth in oonhed withouten any imaginable chaunging, and ever is present and now.