associable
adj1
Capable of being associated or joined.
- We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.1855, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology:
- There were certainly two definable personal exudations about the other shoe, and associable with them syringa—that's the girl—and cheiranthus—this one.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
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Obsolete sociable; companionable
3
Medicine, Sciences Obsolete Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
- the stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body1802, Samuel l. Mitchill, Edward Miller, “Remarks on the Sympathy of the Stomach”, in The Medical Repository:
- Derived terms
- associableness, nonassociable, unassociable