Hypertext Webster Gateway: "alterable"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Alterable \Al"ter*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. alt['e]rable.]
Capable of being altered.

Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain,
alterable by a thousand accidents. --Rogers.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

alterable
adj 1: capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic;
"alterable clothing"; "alterable conditions of
employment" [ant: {unalterable}]
2: (law) of a sentence; capable of being changed to one less
severe


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