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Meanings of explicable in English

Portuguese
explicável
Spanish
explicable

Capable of being explicated or accounted for.

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        Usage of explicable in English
        1
        His mistake as to the number of Indian dead is easily explicable.
        The Winning of the West, Volume 2 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
        2
        Upon no other hypothesis is the thing that Bu-lot now did explicable.
        Tarzan the Terrible
        3
        Without this hypothesis, man is unintelligible; with it, every phenomenon is explicable.
        Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
        4
        We all have that feeling of comfort and solidity and explicable existence.
        The new yorker
        5
        Such phenomena-andthey might be largely multiplied-areonly explicable upon one hypothesis.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
        6
        This policy becomes explicable only when you recognise where power really lies.
        The Guardian
        7
        Thus a phenomenon, curious but explicable, was happening under these strange conditions.
        From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
        8
        Adrian loved her, yet he had killed himself: how was that explicable?
        The Sense of an Ending
        9
        Therefore, the gas exchange features of PB are explicable by primary ventilatory oscillation.
        Pubmed
        10
        The quarrel between the representatives of the two interests is easily explicable historically.
        Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
        11
        It was quite simple, and even explicable by the new psychology.
        The Breaking Point
        12
        For a month this in explicable crime had been the talk of Paris.
        Original Short Stories — Volume 06
        13
        The slang of criminals is also explicable on the same principle.
        Crime and Its Causes
        14
        But does the power of this symbolism make Fenianism any more historically explicable?
        The Irish Times
        15
        Sterling, though, may revisit its flash crash lows for rather more explicable reasons.
        Reuters
        16
        These gestures are, I believe, explicable on the principle of antithesis.
        The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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        Portuguese
        explicável
        Spanish
        explicable
        Explicable through the time
        Explicable across language varieties
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