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enforceable, a.|ɛnˈfɔəsəb(ə)l| Also 6 inforcible, 9 enforcible. [f. enforce v. + -able.] Capable of being enforced. † Also = forcible.
1589Marprel. Epit. C ij b, See..what may be brought to reproche the credit of such inforcible proofes. a1677Barrow Sermon vi. Wks. I. 71 (L.) Grounded upon plain testimonies of Scripture, and enforcible by good reason. 1863H. Cox Instit. ii. viii. 495 An obligation enforceable in equity. 1870Contemp. Rev. XV. 555 Either party..may..get damages, enforceable by distress. 1875Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xv. (ed. 5) 245 Feudal rights no longer enforcible. |