demarcatable en · ADJ
Etymology
From demarcate + -able.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Able to be demarcated.
Smith’s book is of decisive importance because what it seeks to show is that the concept of “religion” as a demarcatable system of doctrines-scriptures-beliefs,[…].
1999, David Scott, “Religion in Colonial Civil Society”, in Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, part one (Rationalities), page 55:Bastards catch, reflect and secure the “sympathy of crowds” quicker than any other class of human beings demarcatable as a class.
1900, The Alienist and Neurologist, page 670:One hundred and fifty years ago there were no Forest Departments in Europe, and most of the forests were in worse order than the present demarcatable forest of New Zealand to-day.
1918, Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, pages 92–93:Land, it is said, unlike air or flowing water, is not a wandering thing, and is by its nature demarcatable and divisible;
1890, K[ishore] M[ohan] Chatterjea, “Lecture VI. Title, or Cause of Acquisition.”, in The Law Relating to the Transfer of Immoveable Property, Inter Vivos. With an Appendix Containing the Transfer of Property Act, Being Act IV of 1882. (Tagore Law Lectures), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. […] Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. Madras: Higginbotham & Co. London: W. Thacker & Co., page 126: