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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Im·prov·a·ble a.
 1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.
    Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties.   --Sir M. Hale.
    I have a fine spread of improvable lands.   --Addison.
 2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
    The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better.   --Sir T. Browne.
 -- Im*pro*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prov*a*bly, adv.
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