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hangable, a. rare.|ˈhæŋəb(ə)l|
[See -able.]
1. Capable of being or liable to be hanged.
1595–6in Tytler Hist. Scot. (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’. 1719Ozell tr. Mission's Mem. 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.
1815Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. 323 It does not..appear that he ever committed any hangable or transportable offence.
3. That may lead to hanging.
1836T. Hook G. Gurney (1850) III. iii. 351, I felt none of that hangable, drownable desperation about her.
So hangaˈbility, capacity of being hanged.
1829Lamb Lett. xvii. To Procter 157 The theoretical hangibility (or capacity of being hanged, if the judge pleases) of every infant born with a neck on. |