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procurable

adjective

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adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English procure Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English procurable From procure + -able.

  1. Able to be procured.

    One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

    The tunes Goldfaden drew from all sources procurable: from the Synagogue, from the Jewish, Ukrainian and Roumanian folk-song, taking also snatches rom French, Italian and Russian couplets, marches, operas and potpourris.