Meaning of motionable | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Able to be moved or set in motion.
2. Able to be made as a motion.

Examples

“Yet found he not on heaven's face⟳ A task of cloud to clear ; There was no speck that he might chase⟳ Off the blue hemisphere, Nor vapour from the land⟳ to drive⟳: The frost-bound country held Nought motionable or alive, […]”

“Sway, flowers, leaning like⟳ reeds in a wave⟳, More motionable than insects.”

“The girth ofit and the wharf of it and the wall; Stanching, quenching ocean of a motionable mind⟳; […]”

“On the back of the sheet of paper on which he wrote this poem Hopkins scribbled one of his only poems about the sort⟳ of men he knew at Oxford: Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit Caps occasion with an intellectual fit.”

“If the fact of insurance coverage is omitted from the petition, will a mere statement that the claim⟳ will be unaffected by insovency of the estate suffice, or is this motionable?”

“Some attribute it to uninspiring motions—but a glance⟳ at them does not suggest⟳ that the good days (except for the excellent 'King and Country' motion harking back to historic Union debates when another Amplefordian was then also President ) were any more motionable than the bad were motionless.”

“No that's not a motionable motion I will reframe it we must vote⟳ on whether to be implicit or explicit and if the latter then vote⟳ on the positive or negative modalities.”

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