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vindicable, a.|ˈvɪndɪkəb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. vindicābilis (Du Cange), f. L. vindicāre to vindicate. Cf. OF. vindicable punishing.]
†1. Vengeful, vindictive. Obs.—1
1632Lithgow Trav. i. 7 Any obuious obiect of disastrous misfortune: or perhaps any vindicable action, [which] might from an vnsetled ranckour be conceiued.
2. Capable of being vindicated; admitting of being justified or maintained.
1647Engl. Mountebank Cast. Sickly Water State 5 Their freedoms, liberty of person, property of Estates given away and become meere Notions, and not vindicable, nor preservable by Law. 1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5090/1 The most vindicable Quarrel can be imagin'd. 1736Chandler Hist. Persec. 436, I think this manner of subscribing to Creeds..is infamous in its nature, and vindicable upon no principles of conscience and honour. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xlviii. (1783) II. 39, I think every work of God vindicable. 1836J. Halley in W. Arnot Mem. (1842) 61 Feelings which were natural, but by no means vindicable. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 336 Hostilities in this campaign were generally prosecuted in a stern and inflexible spirit, vindicable, perhaps, by the cruelty and treachery of the Mahratta princes. |