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sortably en · ADV

Etymology

From sortable + -ly.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) suitably
   • And that peradventure examples in grammar, rethorike, and logike, might more fitly and sortably be taken from elsewhere , than from so sacred and holy a subject , as also the arguments of theatres , plots of plaies , and grounds of publike spectacles: 1891, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes - Volume 2, page 385:
   • Her husband, who had left the room immediately after ushering in the warrior and his sooty burthen, entered as she ws about to speak; and, in answer to her appeal to him, declared that the knight "could i' no fashion be put up sortably with the like o' them: sorry was he; but welcome should he be to a share of the supper, and a draught at the ale-jug; 1833, Edwin Atherstone, The Sea Kings in England:
2. Such that (something) can be sorted.
   • First of all, since it has been postulated that it is non-standardizability that sets off the discursive from the sortably standardizable, we must try to see what it is, as far as order is concerned, that constitutes discourse. 1966, Herbert Goldhor, Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of .Data Processing, page 49:
   • peripheral limit means to sortably remove the coins from the disc while in a "single file" on the disc, in accordance with their denominational value. 1959, Albert G. Blanchette and Victor G. Ristvedt, “2906276: Coin Sorter”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1294:

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