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warrantable, a.|ˈwɒrəntəb(ə)l|
[f. warrant v. + -able.]
For which warrant may be given.
1. Of actions, sentiments, motives, etc.: That may be authorized, sanctioned, or permitted; justifiable.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxiii. §5 Tutors, without whose authoritie there was no act which they did, warrantable. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 104 Pardon this my digression, not warrantable in a journall. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 49 Tis therefore very Warrantable to pass a Severe Judgment upon a Man, when 'tis plain and out of question that he deserves it. 1774Sir J. Reynolds Disc. vi. (1778) 217 It is a necessary and warrantable pride to disdain to walk servilely behind any individual, however elevated his rank. 1834Marryat P. Simple viii, Any other expenses which you may consider warrantable or justifiable. 1846J. Kenrick Ess. Primæval Hist. Pref. p. xviii, Since..we can neither deny the fact of a contrariety, nor remove it by any warrantable means. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 482 Only in desperate cases is such heroic use of the remedy warrantable.
b. Const. by, from, to.
1639Massinger Unnat. Combat i. i. B 4, Everie minute to me will be a tedious age till our embraces are warrantable to the world. 1656in Burton's Diary (1828) I. 254 They have done nothing but what was warrantable by former precedents. 1659Milton Civ. Power 5 Having no other divine rule or autoritie from without us warrantable to one another as a common ground but the holy scripture. 1713T. Chalkley Wks. (1751) II. 57 It is Warrantable from Scripture, that Gospel Ministers be honourably supported and maintained.
†2. That may be guaranteed as good, true, genuine, or the like; of good warrant; praiseworthy, acceptable. Obs.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 471 b, Lett us peruse the Argumentes wherewith this gentle and obedient childe of the Popes good grace doth make his wordes warrantable. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe B 4 b, But this is most warrantable, the Alpha of all the Yarmouths it was, and not the Omega correspondently. c1618E. Bolton Hypercritica iv. §1 The Books..out of which we gather the most warrantable English are not many to my remembrance. 1626Middleton Anything for Quiet Life iii. ii, She says you vent ware that is not warrantable, braided ware. 1709T. Robinson Vind. Mosaick Syst. Introd. 11 A Man of the highest Political Accomplishments, as well as True and Warrantable Prudence. 1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 108 From what we have said, it evidently appears, that the works in general of Hippocrates are not warrantable. 1821Lamb Elia, Imperf. Sympathies, [I] thought I could not do better than follow the example of such grave and warrantable personages.
3. That can be legally guaranteed.
1876Blackmore Cripps liii, Not a pound should be deducted from his warrantable value, simply because he now did what any other young horse in the world would have felt to be right.
4. Venery. Applied to a stag which is of an age to be hunted.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 190 The Deer themselves were well enough grown, and warrantable. 1847Marryat Childr. N. Forest v, A warrantable stag—that is, one old enough to kill and to be good venison. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports 82/1 At six [years], a Warrantable Stag. 1884Jefferies Red Deer vi. 104 It must be a runnable stag, or warrantable, a term in its strict meaning indicating a stag of five years.
Add: Hence warrantaˈbility n. = warrantableness n.
1974Federal Reporter (U.S.) CDXC. 177/1 The evidence we have from her own witnesses is sufficiently provocative to call for a detailed consideration of the warrantability of such finding. 1985PC Week 1 Oct. 5/3 It basically allows vendors to insert any disclaimers they want... The shrink-wrap law lets them disclaim warrantability. 1988Isis Dec. 690/2 The problem is made all the more difficult by Giere's insistence..that there are no atemporal standards of warrantability or rational choice available to which to appeal. |