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形容詞

procurable (not comparable)

1. Able to be procured.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 452:

     The tunes Goldfaden drew from all sources procurable: from the Synagogue, from the Jewish, Ukrainian and Roumanian folk-song, taking also snatches rom French, Italian and Russian couplets, marches, operas and potpourris.

同意語

• See obtainable

反意語

• unprocurable; see also unobtainable

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “procurable”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.