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examinable, a.|ɛgˈzæmɪnəb(ə)l|
[f. examine v. + -able.]
1. Capable or admitting of being examined. † Of a body: That is to be tested (obs.).
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxv. 122 The Draughts and first lawes of the Game are positiue, but..not examinable by reason. 1651Davenant Gondibert Pref. (1673) 8 Great bodies are more examinable by being scatter'd into parcels. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 200 Whatever the truth of this Opinion be, it is not here properly examinable. 1678R. Russell Geber iii. ii. iii. iii. 220 Blow upon the Surface of the Examinable Body until it flows. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xxi. 404 The smallest examinable quantity of matter. 1808Bentham Sc. Reform 70 Half a dozen witnesses not examinable but at so many different days. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxvii. (1856) 340 The horn..was perfectly examinable.
†b. Sc. examinable persons: parishioners eligible to be examined for admission to communion.
1719R. Erskine Let. in Fraser Life 46 [There are] upwards of 5000 examinable persons in the congregation. 1722Walker Life of Cargill 30 In which Parish 300 out of 900 examinable Persons wasted away. 1850Form of Petit. in Cook Styles of Writs Ch. Crts. Sc. 185 The present examinable population of the parish amounts to—persons.
2. Law. Subject to examination or inquiry; competent to be examined or inquired into; cognisable.
1594West Symbol ii. Chancery §71 That it be such as is examinable in this court. 1666Pepys Diary 21 Feb., The privileges of Parliament..are few to the Commons' house, and those not examinable by them, but only by the House of Lords. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xviii. 471 His determinations are final, and examinable in no other court whatsoever. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 300 A fine..is properly examinable in that court only where it is entered. 1884Sir C. S. C. Bowen in Law Rep. Q. Bench XIII. 87 His intentions are examinable to this extent. |