📚 adj • entry_id 52034
colourable
/ˈkʌləɹəb(ə)l/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
colorado
Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
Doth the master make any bargaine, or dispatch that pleaseth not? it is immediately smothered and suppressed, soone after forging causes, and devising colourable excuses, to excuse…
they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie […].
coloreable
That can be coloured.
These results were discovered whilst investigating uniquely edge colourable graphs.
This matter, however, is not itself coloured, but is only capable of exhibiting colours, by the addition of other matters : and hence we have ventured to call it the colourable, ra…
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