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inquirable, enquirable, a. Now rare.|ɪnˈkwaɪərəb(ə)l|
[f. inquire v. + -able.]
That may or should be inquired about or into; that admits of or calls for inquiry; open to inquiry. (Chiefly in legal use.) Also with into.
α1485Act 1 Hen. VII, c. 7 The same..Disobeysance shall be Felony, enquirable and determinable as is aforesaid. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 5 §1 All maner..thinges enquirable presentable or determinable before iusticers of peace. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. I. (1739) 88 This made the crime enquirable at the common-Law. 1740Col. Rec. Pennsylv. IV. 404 Any Thing of this kind..is more properly enquirable by others than by us.
βa1547Petit. in Rye Cromer (1889) 53 All suche transpases & offences as be..Inquyreable in Haven Courts. 1574J. Jones Nat. Begin. Grow. Things 42 So that it wer requisite at Assises, Sessions, and Sinodes, it were inqueereable. 1651R. Saunders Plenary Possess. 9 The Third Question inquirable into is [etc.]. 1670Bushell's Case in Phenix (1721) I. 423 An Article inquirable in every Oyer and Terminer. 1766W. Gordon Gen. Counting-ho. 377 The consideration of the note was not inquirable. |