retortable
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1ADV.
altogether, then
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adj
To which one may produce a counterargument; answerable.
The appeal to common sense, then, is altogether retortable, and leaves the whole question in statu quo; both matter and mind resting on exactly equivalent evidence, be it sufficient or insufficient.
No doubt all such attempts will be met, more or less, by the old watch-cries of materialism and pantheism; but we protest in the outset against any such charges, not only as hasty and ill-judged, but perfectly retortable.
Suitable for heating in a retort.
But with contracts made for the retortable material which can be mined without difficulty, yet which it is in the collieries' interests not to permit to be mixed with the coal, a fair price can no doubt be arrived at.
The zone of retortable oil shale underlying the pattern wells was from 340- to 380- foot depth.
Suitable for retort processing.
Retortable pouches were the first to come on the scene as retortable packaging.
Retortable trays have a semi-rigid or rigid boy and a sealable flexible lid.
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3The appeal to common sense, then, is altogether retortable, and leaves the whole question in statu quo; both matter and mind resting on exactly equivalent evidence, be it sufficient or insufficient.
WiktionaryNo doubt all such attempts will be met, more or less, by the old watch-cries of materialism and pantheism; but we protest in the outset against any such charges, not only as hasty and ill-judged, but
WiktionaryOh wise and divine restraint, that curbeth the most universall and common error of men: Not onely the reproches, wee doe one to another, but our reasons, our arguments and matter controversed, are ord
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