motionable
English
Etymology
From motion + -able.
Adjective
motionable (comparative more motionable, superlative most motionable)
- Able to be moved or set in motion; movely.
- 1899, Robert Seymour Bridges, Poetical Works of Robert Bridges:
- 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, [...]
- 2006, Theodore Roethke, David Wagoner, Straw for the Fire:
- Sway, flowers, leaning like reeds in a wave, More motionable than insects.
- 2007, Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:
- The girth ofit and the wharf of it and the wall; Stanching, quenching ocean of a motionable mind; [...]
- 2012, Denis Healey, My Secret Planet:
- 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.
- 1899, Robert Seymour Bridges, Poetical Works of Robert Bridges:
- Able to be motioned.