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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd͡ʒɪbəl/

形容詞

agible (comparative more agible, superlative most agible)

1. (obsolete) Possible to be done; practicable.
   • 1825, Sir Anthony Sherley, The Three Brothers:

     In my first years my friends bestowed on me those learnings which were fit for a gentleman's ornament without directing them to an occupation; and when they were fit for agible things, they bestowed them and me on my Prince's service, in which I ran many courses of divers fortunes according to the condition of the wars, in which as I was most exercised , so was I most subject to accidents.

   • 1939 ·, Catholic University of America, Philosophical Studies - Issues 48-51, page 150:

     Their relation, then, is the same as that between "making" and "doing” or between the factibile and the agible.

   • 2014, J. Grogan, The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622:

     In the Relations exposition of Cyrus's Persian empire's waning ability to mediate English political interests and economic pursuits, and in Anthony's strained formulations of what is now ''agible' between England and Persia, we can find seeds of ideas about the new realities of England's international economic and political relations with the countries of the east.

2. Involving or pertaining to actions.
   • 2016, Bhikhu Parekh, Bentham's Political Thought, page 138:

     The persons who are their agible subjects are the persons whose acts are in question—the persons whose acts are the objects of the mandate.