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Traversable adj.

Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.

Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment.

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Etymology of 'Traversable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Traversable" Quotes from Famous Books

... we say that things infinite in themselves are finite in God's knowledge, against this it may be urged that the essence of the infinite is that it is untraversable, and the finite that it is traversable, as said in Phys. iii. But the infinite is not traversable either by the finite or by the infinite, as is proved in Phys. vi. Therefore the infinite cannot be bounded by the finite, nor even by the infinite; and so the infinite cannot be finite in ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... New Orleans was made the capital of the French possessions in the Southwest. France hoped to build in this colony a kingdom rich and lucrative, and this hope the early conditions, the stretch of fertile and easily traversable country, stimulated. The French and Indian wars came on. The English forces, aided by American colonists of English descent, captured the French forts, destroyed their towns, and took dominion of their territory. The Seven Years' War, ...

— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al.

Words linked to "Traversable" : travelable