supposable

For example if it makes no difference whether we say that the supposable is not the genus of the opinable or that the opinable is not identical with a particular kind of supposable (for what is meant is the same in both statements), it is better to take as the terms the supposable and the opinable in preference to the phrase suggested.

Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002

For example if it makes no difference whether we say that the supposable is not the genus of the opinable or that the opinable is not identical with a particular kind of supposable (for what is meant is the same in both statements), it is better to take as the terms the supposable and the opinable in preference to the phrase suggested.

PRIOR ANALYTICS Aristotle 1989

The señor had added that it was almost the same with whatever customs duties were collected by the civil officers of the port, with the one drawback that a dishonest army collector, if discovered, might possibly get himself shot as a kind of supposable revolutionist, stealing the profits of the others.

Ahead of the Army William Osborn Stoddard 1880

Still though, it's a lot stronger than * likely* and * supposable*, while making words like * who the hell knows?

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Global warming was simply * credible*, very close to * supposable*, many might even say it teetered on * inferable*, but now, as we see, it is most definitely very likely*.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Had it been altered, the only supposable motive for murder on the part of the suspected would have been the ordinary one of revenge; and even this would have been counteracted by the hope of reinstation into the good graces of the uncle.

Thou Art the Man 2006

Yet it is mere folly to say that between the first and second disappearance of Marie there is no supposable connection.

The Mystery of Marie Roget 2006

I acted then all the niceties, apprehensions, and terrors supposable for a girl perfectly innocent to feel at so great a novelty as a naked man in bed with her for the first time.

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2004

He was not fond of Ralph — Ralph had told her so — and it was not supposable that Mr. Osmond had suddenly taken a fancy to her son.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

So desperate was the running fight, yard-arm to yard-arm, which he maintained with creditors fierce as famine and hungry as the grave; so deep also was his horror (I know not for which of the various reasons supposable) against falling into a prison, that he seldom ventured to sleep twice successively in the same house.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various