Crossword clues for datable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
datable \dat"a*ble\, a.
That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.
``Datable almost to a year.''
--The Century.
Syn: dateable. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. That may be ascribed a date (or age)
WordNet
Usage examples of "datable".
Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.
Their influence is evident in a number of early and datable buildings with murals and statuary.
Bengali image of the goddess Tara now in the Dacca Museum and datable to the early second millennium AD.
Where datable, perhaps ten million years old, but the probable error of those measurements might be up to fifty percent.
So, without knowing the context or having no other material that might be datable by another method, I cannot tell you how old this wood is.
Scandinavian geologists, working on the peat-bogs, have discovered evidence of many variations of climate in the north, but none datable to the early ninth century.
It is very difficult to fix the date of any earthwork unless datable objects are found within it or literary evidence certainly referring to it exists.
No datable objects have yet been discovered, and Hague Dike so far remains undated.
Caton-Thompson thirty years ago -- as by Randall-MacIver before her and other workers in this field, like Summers, after her -- rest on tangible evidence from many sides: on datable Chinese porcelain, on beads from India and Indonesia which are also, to some extent, datable, and on other objects of foreign importation.
Because northern fluted projectile points have been found only in contexts that are not datable by standard dating techniques, we must infer their age from other information.
Manuscripts which contain the bulk of the New Testament, such as the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus, are datable no earlier than the 300s CE.
The fragmentary pieces of texts, such as the Chester Beatty papyri or the Bodmer papryri, containing portions of the four Gospels and Acts, as well as some of the Pauline epistles, Hebrews and Revelation, are datable only to the third century, a few pieces no earlier than the year 200.
The epistle of Barnabas, perhaps datable to about 110-120, contains two Gospel-like sayings.
John is datable at best to the second quarter of the second century, while everything else comes from no earlier than the year 200, is simply unacceptable.