Definition of "protractible" []

• Able to be extended (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "You must suppose a real night-mare — I mean a night-mare in which the objects and the danger are real, and the spell of corporal death appears to be protractible at the pleasure of the persons who preside at your unearthly torments."
• "a night-mare in which the objects and the danger are real, and the spell of corporal death appears to be protractible at the pleasure of the persons who preside at your unearthly torments."