Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: ponibility

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ponibility
Apr 25th 2013, 00:44

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# {{obsolete}} The capability of being [[place]]d or [[locate]]d.

  

# {{obsolete}} The capability of being [[place]]d or [[locate]]d.
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#*'''1734''', {{w|Isaac Barrow}}, ''The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning'', Lecture X, p. 176:
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#*:''Space'' is nothing else but the mere ''Power, Capacity, Ponibility,'' or (begging pardon for the Expressions) ''Interponibility of Magnitude''.
 

{{Webster 1913}}

  

{{Webster 1913}}

Latest revision as of 00:44, 25 April 2013

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Latin ponere to place.

[edit] Noun

ponibility

  1. (obsolete) The capability of being placed or located.
    • 1734, Isaac Barrow, The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning, Lecture X, p. 176:
      Space is nothing else but the mere Power, Capacity, Ponibility, or (begging pardon for the Expressions) Interponibility of Magnitude.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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