associable
English
Adjective
associable (comparative more associable, superlative most associable)
- Capable of being associated or joined.
- 1855, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology:
- We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.
- (obsolete) sociable; companionable
- (medicine, obsolete) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
- 1802, Samuel l. Mitchill, Edward Miller, “Remarks on the Sympathy of the Stomach”, in The Medical Repository:
- the stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body
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