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Continuable

Continuable \Con*tin"u*a*ble\, a. Capable of being continued [R.]

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continuable

a. able to be continued.

Usage examples of "continuable".

What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: & what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life.

Reason and experience prove to us that a chief magistrate, so continuable, is an officer for life.

My fears of that feature were founded on the importance of the office, on the fierce contentions it might excite among ourselves, if continuable for life, and the dangers of interference either with money or arms, by foreign nations, to whom the choice of an American President might become interesting.