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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