dividable

Example Sentences

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Though basic impulses may be dividable here along gender lines, variations on those instincts are countless and contradictory.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2013

How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place?

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George

Thus dis'soluble or dissolv'able does not mean able to dissolve, but capable of being dissolved; and divisible or dividable does not mean able to divide, but capable of being divided.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

It is not clear whether the "money dividable" was only that separated by Sir Nicholas, or whether he left other sums which went to augment the fund divisible amongst the brothers.

From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.