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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being preserved.

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  • adjective Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

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  • adjective Capable of being preserved.

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  • adjective capable of being preserved

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Examples

  • And if we did so, and if such forms of organic life were preservable, we should have what I would call historical evidence of the mode in which organic life began upon this planet.

    Essays 2007

  • But in the absence of digital remasters of Cyril Scott's two piano concs with Ogdon, I'm all for transferring them, plus a shedload of other stuff, onto a preservable format.

    Vinylly? Jessica 2006

  • If we keep buyinig into these DRM-laden resources, not only will our users stop coming to us for content, but a lot of the content that we have legitimately purchased will become unusable, inaccessiable, non-preservable in the future.

    History of Hacking Digital Rights Management 2006

  • But first you have to establish a status quo that's preservable.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2006 2006

  • If we keep buyinig into these DRM-laden resources, not only will our users stop coming to us for content, but a lot of the content that we have legitimately purchased will become unusable, inaccessiable, non-preservable in the future.

    July 2006 2006

  • Again, at each epoch, the whole earth was no doubt, as now, more or less the theatre of life, and as the successive generations of each species died, their exuviae and preservable parts would be deposited over every portion of the then existing seas and oceans, which we have reason for supposing to have been more, rather than less, extensive than at present.

    On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

  • Scotland, certainly rendered it not only justifiable but highly praiseworthy that the Exchequer should make some effort for preserving so much of the pile as was preservable.

    The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various

  • Here and there closets had to be broken into; all preservable goods were disinfected in the courtyard behind the house, while all suspicious rags, etc., were piled into a wholesome bonfire.

    Love and Life Behind the Purdah 1901

  • Again, at each epoch, the whole earth was no doubt, as now, more or less the theatre of life, and as the successive generations of each species died, their exuviæ and preservable parts would be deposited over every portion of the then existing seas and oceans, which we have reason for supposing to have been more, rather than less, extensive than at present.

    Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • And if we did so, and if such forms of organic life were preservable, we should have what I would call historical evidence of the mode in which organic life began upon this planet.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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