Oxford, were there no other namable place, is beyond us. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
Four men namable in that capacity are, Sir Lomer Gouin, Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Staring at that mark, so many namable and unnamable thoughts and feelings rushed forward. From Wordnik.com. [Change « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts] Reference
Last year, thevisible namable enemy to civilized people was GWB, so we fought him and his criminal policies. From Wordnik.com. [Help yourself revolution] Reference
In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter we have umami--a savory taste intensifier that is the un-namable thing in many foods that makes us say "yum" and go back for seconds. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Taste: A Wine with Umami] Reference
The best that an individual can do is to recall "moments, years,/Solid with reality, faces, namable events, kisses, heroic acts,/... as though meaning could be cast aside some day/When it had been outgrown.". From Wordnik.com. [Papa] Reference
And we must remember that all we do to connect the Gallery to its public comes back to this: We present experiences that sometimes seem un-namable, indefinable, something that we know when we see it, or feel it, something that we hold on to for ourselves when it is given to us, and that is the experience of the work of art. From Wordnik.com. [What We Learn From the Past] Reference
For you take utterly away the whole category of namable things, which constitute the substance of language; and leave only words and their accidental objects, while you take away in the meantime the things particularly signfied by them, by which are wrought disciplines, doctrines, preconceptions, intelligences, inclination, and assent, which you hold to be nothing at all. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Of the first leading division of namable things, viz. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Budd] Reference
We shall commence with Feelings, the simplest class of namable things; the term. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Or in other words, when does the olfactory system "decide" whether an odorant is namable?. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Therefore, before and after, unnamable and namable, undying and dying, unborn and born ... are what one has thought. From Wordnik.com. Reference
There are not so many namable varieties, I just now said, of robin as of falcon; but this is somewhat inaccurately stated. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
The namable essence of things or the standard of values must always be an ideal figment; existence must always be an empirical fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
For of all the virtues namable among men, consider, and you will find there is not one but may be increased by learning and practice. From Wordnik.com. [The Memorabilia] Reference
There her dust mingles with that of John Bunyan, of Daniel de Foe, of Isaac Watts, of William Blake, of Thomas Stothard, and a multitude of nameless or of most namable others. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter we have umami -- a savory taste intensifier that is the un-namable thing in many foods that makes us say "yum" and go back for seconds. From Wordnik.com. [Good Wine Under $20] Reference
That right and truth, or God's Law, reign supreme among men, this is the Heavenly Ideal (well named in Knox's time, and namable in all times, a revealed 'Will of God') towards which the. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
That intangible, un-namable charm of a happy and thoughtless youth had suddenly slipped away from him, and he was sure that at this hour he looked at things as he could not have looked at them a week before. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Fife] Reference
We shall now proceed to the two remaining classes of namable things; all things which are regarded as external to the mind being considered as belonging either to the class of Substances or to that of Attributes. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
To possess virtue does not signify to have cultivated a few namable and exclusive traits; it means to be fully and adequately what one is capable of becoming through association with others in all the offices of life. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
My point in introducing a namable concept is to give some context to the complaint that I notice is likely to come about as Obama fails his hopeful constituency and to outline some of my political complacency of late. From Wordnik.com. [Cobb] Reference
And at sight of him awoke in the woman's heart all the old tenderness; handsome and brave and witty she knew him to be, as indeed the whole world knew him to be distinguished by every namable grace; and the innate weakness of de. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Notions, which, although they may come second as regards time into consciousness, are by reason known to have been there before, because through them alone can the sensations become intelligibly possible, or thinkable, or namable. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
First there is, so to say, the raw material or Matter, having in it no definite character or quality; next the Form or Specific character, in virtue of which the thing becomes namable; and third, there is the Thing or Substance which these two together constitute. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
It will take fifty years 'digestion before the recently ascertained elements of natural science can permit the arrangement of species in any permanently (even over a limited period) namable order; nor then, unless a great man is born to perceive and exhibit such order. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
And at sight of him awoke in the woman's heart all of the old tenderness; handsome and brave and witty she knew him to be, past reason, as indeed the whole world knew him to be distinguished by every namable grace; and the innate weakness of de Gatinais, which she alone suspected, made him now seem doubly dear. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
"She's into every namable thing in the neighborhood, an 'not only into it, but generally at the head an' front of it, especially when it's mischief. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm] Reference
A definitely experienceable relation, and therefore describable as well as namable; that it is not unique in kind, and neither invariable nor universal. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
'ideas,' which come into the consciousness of men in connection with or on occasion of sensations, which are therefore in our experience later than the sensations, but which we nevertheless by reason recognise as necessarily prior to the sensations, inasmuch as it is through these ideas alone that the sensations are knowable or namable at all. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
| Page 334: namable replaced with nameable |. From Wordnik.com. [The Promised Land] Reference
That which is called the "unnamable" is already the "namable" now. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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