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justifiable, a.|ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪəb(ə)l|
[a. F. justifiable (13–14th c.), f. justifier to justify.]
†1. = justiciable. Obs.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. xviii. 33 b, Here you my lorde R. that I W. de C. fro thus day forthe to you shalbe faythfull and lowly..and I shall be iustifyable of body and of goodes. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parlt. App. 17 Whom Cæsar..calleth Reguli, little Kings, being themselves subjects and justifiable to the Nobility, who had all the Soveraignty.
2. Capable of being legally or morally justified, or shown to be just, righteous, or innocent; defensible.
justifiable homicide: see homicide n.2
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xiii. (1634) 628 marg., Departure from Monkerie to some other honest kind of life [is] justifiable. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 39 May it not sometimes be justifiable to breake a mans head? 1624Capt. Smith Virginia Pref. §4 The stile of a Souldier is not eloquent, but honest and iustifiable. 1717J. Keill Anim. Oecon. (1738) 8 In no Case..is the drawing off a large Quantity of Blood at a time justifiable. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xiii. 104 Little artifices which a tradesman thinks himself justifiable in practising. 1859J. Cumming Ruth ii. 15 Emigration from one's own land seems hardly justifiable.
†b. Of an assertion, etc.: Capable of being maintained, defended, or made good. Obs.
1612Selden Illustr. to Drayton's Poly-olb. viii. 127 It is iustifiable by Cæsar, that they vs'd to shaue all except their head and vpper lip..but in their old Coynes I see no such thing warranted. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiv. 170 Some in the water doe carry a justifiable resemblance to some at the Land. 1651Raleigh's Ghost 201 That so much raine could cause so great an inundation..may be made justifyable partly by reason, and partly by experience.
†3. Fitted to justify a claim or the like. Obs.
1755N. Magens Insurances II. 417 The justifiable Instruments of the Cargo and Loss of the Goods insured and abandoned, the Assured ought to manifest and present to the Assurers. |