| 单词 | extendible |
| 释义 | extendible, a.|ɛkˈstɛndɪb(ə)l|
In 7 extendable.
[f. extend + -ible.]
1. Capable of being extended or stretched out; capable of being enlarged in length, area, or duration, or in range or scope of meaning or operation; = extensible.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 69 [Sweet smell] is in Aier more penetrative, And is more extendible. 1643Answ. Ld. Digby's Apol. 58 The meaning of some words of great latitude, and very extendible in the said Protestation. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xviii. 263 Warrants for Vagrants are not extendable to Knight Errants. 1693J. Beaumont On Burnet's Th. Earth ii. 121 The most ductile and extendible of all Bodies. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments (1732) 42 Such Tubes as have often suffered this Force grow rigid, and hardly more extendible therefore. 1816Q. Rev. XVI. 49 The elastic and extendible nature of those links in the moral chain. 1832in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
2. Law. Subject to seizure under a writ of extent; liable to be levied upon for debt, etc.
1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 165 The Lands Intailed were not extendable. a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law (1635) 47 Not extendable for the debts of the party after his death. 1755in Johnson. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 139 An equity of redemption is..not extendible by a judgement creditor. 1832in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |
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