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preˈscriptible, a. rare.
[f. L. ppl. stem præscript- (see prec.) + -ible; so F. prescriptible (prescrittible 16th c. in Littré), It. prescrittibile.]
Liable or subject to prescription; derived from or founded on prescription.
1542Henry VIII Declar. Scots D iij b, The hole prescription of the Scottis, if the matier were prescriptable, is thus deduced euidentely to .xiii. yere. 1688Answ. Talon's Plea 31 A Sovereign Power, that neither suffers attaint, nor is prescriptible. 1795Wythe Decis. Virginia 97 That the demand of the plaintiffs is in its nature prescriptible.
Hence prescriptiˈbility, the quality of being prescriptible.
a1843Judge Story cited in Worcester. |