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adjective
1.
Capable of being put into another form or style or language.  "His books are eminently translatable"
2.
Capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy.  Synonyms: convertible, transformable, transmutable.  "Ideas translatable into reality"





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"Translatable" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Fourth Dynasty of Babylon, the celebrated Michaux Stone(286) records the gift of lands by a father to his daughter on her marriage. From Kassite times we have a list similar to the above, but not easily translatable. The supposed examples of dowry in Assyrian times are not really such. But in the later Babylonian era the marriage-portion was still given by the father. It bears, however, the name nudunnu, once reserved for the husband's free gift to his wife. The nudunnu, in one case, is ten minas ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... to these pieces in spirit were the {696} Shrovetide Farces written in Germany by the simple Nuremberger who describes himself in the verses, literally translatable: ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... that was quite understandable, he broke loose in Japanese hardly translatable. "She is a wild, untamed barbarian. She has neither manners nor modesty, and not only dares openly to scorn the customs of my country and religion, but defies my commands, ...
— The House of the Misty Star - A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan • Fannie Caldwell Macaulay


Words linked to "Translatable" :   transmutable, commutable, untranslatable


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