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Definition: DECLINABLE

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.[Websters]
2. Being flexible, pliable, malleable, supple or lithe. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb declinably.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(declinably)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective declinable.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Declinable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: DECLINABLE

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Adjective] That may be declined; changing its termination in the oblique cases; as a declinable noun.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Adjective] (grammar) Capable of being declined. (references)

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Definition: DECLINABLE

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.[Websters]
2. Being flexible, pliable, malleable, supple or lithe. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb declinably.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(declinably)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective declinable.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "DECLINABLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: DECLINABLE

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Adjective] That may be declined; changing its termination in the oblique cases; as a declinable noun.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary[Adjective] (grammar) Capable of being declined. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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