hangableadj.
/ˈhaŋəb(ə)l/ rare.
1. Capable of being or liable to be hanged.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [adjective] > hanged > liable or ready to be hanged
hangable1595
gallows-ripe1837
1595–6 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 238 [James VI..was resolved no more to use great men or chancellors in his affairs, but such as he could correct, and were] ‘hangable’.
1719 J. Ozell tr. F. M. Misson Mem. Trav. Eng. 122 All those People calling themselves Bohemians or Egyptians, are hangable as Felons at the Age of 14 Years.
2. Of an offence: Punishable by hanging.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [adjective] > (of offence) punishable by
hangable1815
1815 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. 323 It does not..appear that he ever committed any hangable or transportable offence.
3. That may lead to hanging.
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1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. iii. 144 I felt none of that hangable, drownable desperation about her.
Derivatives
hangaˈbility n. capacity of being hanged.
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1829 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 208 The theoretical hangibility (or capacity of being hanged, if the judge pleases) of every infant born with a neck on.
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