Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of forming or of entering into an alliance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Able to enter into alliance.
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- adjective Able to be
allied .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When such a questionable shape is to be admitted for the first time into the brotherhood of Christendom, it is not a mere matter of idle curiosity to consider how far it is in its nature alliable with the rest, or whether 'the relations of peace and amity' with this new state are likely to be of the same nature with the _usual_ relations of the states of Europe.
Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889
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It invigorates the stomach for the digestion of poor, meagre diet, not easily alliable to the human constitution.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Constitution of theirs, which had been announced as a great reform, and which was to be, more than any of their former experimental schemes, alliable with other nations, that they would, in their very first public act, and their declaration to the collected representation of Europe and
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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a questionable shape is to be admitted for the first time into the brotherhood of Christendom, it is not a mere matter of idle curiosity to consider how far it is in its nature alliable with the rest, or whether
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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