Definition of Ownable

1. own [adj] - See also: own

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ownable

owlism
owllight
owllike
owls
owly
owly-eyed
owly eied
own
own(a)
own controls
own goal
own goals
own right
own up
ownability
ownable (current term)
ownage
owndom
owndoms
owne
owned
owner
owner-driver
owner-occupied
owner-occupier
owner-operator
ownerless
ownerlessness
owners
ownership

Literary usage of Ownable

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

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"... Is not this also an indication of a sure reaction from the flood of cheap reprints in favor of well-printed, well- bound, and more " ownable " books ? ..."

2. The Future in America: A Search After Realities by Herbert George Wells (1907)
"... there has been and is going on a successive repudiation of that freedom in almost every department of ownable things by considerable masses of thinking ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... it applied to all things ownable without exception, it seems impossible to maintain that т нее ..."

4. Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1868)
"It is awakened not by the presence of any special object, but by ownable objects at large ; and it is not from the mere presence of such object, ..."

5. Introduction to Public Finance by Carl Copping Plehn (1921)
"taxes, and for property taxes when in the last case the base is a man's aggregate estate.,, But if the property tax is one on things ownable, regardless of ..."

6. The Political and Commercial Works of that Celebrated Writer Charles D by Charles Davenant (1771)
"... that there be no honour, wealth, " nor preferment in the whole province, but what •* is ownable to him. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Ownable on Dictionary.com!Search for Ownable on Thesaurus.com!Search for Ownable on Google!Search for Ownable on Wikipedia!

Search

Translations