Inquirable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest.

    "c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court There be many more things inquirable by you throughout all the former parts , which it were overlong in particular to recite"

Example

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"c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court There be many more things inquirable by you throughout all the former parts , which it were overlong in particular to recite"

Etymology

From Middle English enquirable, equivalent to inquire + -able.

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