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Alterable   Listen
adjective
Alterable  adj.  Capable of being altered. "Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Alterable" Quotes from Famous Books



... against any encroachments of the Legislative part; and it is our opinion that the same body that forms a constitution, have, of consequence, a power to alter it; and we conceive, that a constitution, alterable by the supreme legislative power, is no security to the subjects, against the encroachments of that power on our right and privileges." And it was resolved, "that the town thinks it expedient that a convention be ...
— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 • George Boutwell

... had grown to take an interest in hearing Castleton express his opinions. Many of his conceptions of life were so unique; his mental vision, always intensely acute, was often so oblique; his station of mental observation so alterable, and so quickly altered; his sentiments often so earthy, again so exalted—that I believe the man would have interested me even under circumstances less quiet and monotonous than were those of my stay, up ...
— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake



Words linked to "Alterable" :   commutable, law, alterability, unalterable, jurisprudence, alter



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