LekhoriLekhoriCapable of being dissolved or liquefied.
1664, John Chandler (translator), Van Helmont’s Works, London: Lodowick Lloyd, A Treatise of Fevers, Chapter 8, p. 971, […] they administer Pearles, and Corrals being beaten to dust or dissolved in distilled vinegar, or the juice of limons, and again dryed, and solvable in any potable liquour:
Able to pay one's debts.
[…] although imprisonment was imposed by law on persons not solvable, yet officers were unwilling to cast them into goale,
From solve + -able. Piecewise doublet of soluble. More information The mathematical senses derive from Galois theory: Galois discovered that one could determine whether a given polynomial could be sol...
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