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Nam(e)able, a. [Name v.1] Suitable for, or worthy of, being designated or appointed for (some purpose). — 1632 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II. 81.
If the saidis dollouris were to be reducit [etc.] … the sise of the peeces [would be] to small and not namable for the vse of the people
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