creable

English

Etymology

From Latin creābilis, from creō (“create”). See create.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːəbəl/

Adjective

creable (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Capable of being created.
    Synonym: creatable
    • 1734, Isaac Watts, Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects
      […] it cannot be a created substance; because we cannot conceive it creable or annihilable […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for creable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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