English

Adjective

inferible ‎(not comparable)

1. [chiefly used 1800-1850] Alternative spelling of inferrible (synonym of inferable).
   • 1807, George Chalmers, Caledonia: Or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, volume I, book ii: “The Pictish Period — 446 A.D. 843”, chapter ii: ‘Of the Romanized Britons of the Cumbrian Kingdom, in North Britain’, 251, footnote g:

     The fact is inferible, from the notices of Gibbon, the intimation of Tacitus, and the informations of Ptolomy: but, it is from Hick’s Thesaurus, Somner, and Lye’s, Saxon Dictionaries, Ihre’s Glossarium-Suiogothicum, and the Icelandic word-books, that we must learn how many differences, and shades of discrimination, there are, between the several dialects of the Gothic tongue.

   • ibidem, book iv: “The Scoto-Saxon Period — 1097 A.D. 1306”, chapter ii: ‘Of the Civil History, during this Period’, 649, footnote s:

     There was a meeting, indeed, of the regents, and others, at Perth, in October, 1290, when they heard of the lamented death of their sovereign: But, it is inferible, from the silence of Prynne, and Rymer, that they sent none of their proceedings to Edward.

   • 1999, Adolfo Critto, Choosing Models of Society and Social Norms: Improving Choices and Quality of Life, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, ISBN 076181454X, chapter i: “Social Norms and Consistency”, § A.1.a., 2:

     Verbal, written and behavioral language is made up of social norms. At the same time, language is essential in the building of social norms, since individuals use language to exchange and share messages in order to share solutions, meanings, ends and means, implied in, and inferible from, the regularity of shared behaviors observable as social norms.

   • 2003, Josep Miró, “A Formulation for Language Independent Prelogical Deductive Inference” in Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST 2003: 9th International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 24–28, 2003: Revised Selected Papers (LNCS 2809), eds. Roberto Moreno-Díaz and Franz Pichler, Springer, ISSN 0302‒9743, ISBN 3540202218, § 3.1: ‘Comments’, 81:

     The test to determine whether or not e_k is inferible from e_i, e_j …, e_h reduces to find out whether a set is a subset of

Usage notes

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