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Definition of Liftable

1. a. Such as can be lifted.

Definition of Liftable

1. Adjective. Capable of being lifted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Liftable

1. lift [adj] - See also: lift

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liftable

Literary usage of Liftable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"I have used the term "liftable" of the memory context ; the further question arises—must it be actually "lifted" from the real external series ? ..."

2. Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being by James Frederick Ferrier (1856)
"... the ponderable into the liftable by us on the one hand (calling this only the properly ponderable), and, on the other hand, into the still liftable, ..."

3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"For whereas the objects of memory were in a sense 'liftable' from the original things they reported, and also on occasion actually lifted from them; ..."

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