reckonableadj.

1657 S. Gorton Antidote against Common Plague of World 212 All true Office and Officers should arise from, and be created & made only by the Spirit of God, without which they are of no force, vertue, nor reckonable in the Kingdome and house of God.

1808 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 62 It seemed a measureless depth, a strange indefinite Mass of Time—Time out of all account, or reckonable divisions.

1859 J. Bright in Times 18 Aug. 9/6 [The Government] having no reckonable majority in the House of Commons.

1905 Daily Chron. 21 July 4/4 Its only drawback is that it is called ‘Hardy's country’ by those fiction-enthusiasts who now form so reckonable a section of Weymouth guests.

1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory ix. 368 Llewellyn came round to the view that there was, in fact, a fair element of predictability in the work of the appellate courts at least, and that the presence of a number of ‘steadying factors’ made their decisions reasonably ‘reckonable’.

1933 Times 6 Mar. 17/3 The qualifying service required for the gratuity of £75 has been raised from 20 years' reckonable service, and attainment of the age of 40, to 22 years.

1938 Times 29 July 19/1 Losing the whole of that time on half-pay towards the period reckonable for their pensions.

1971 Daily Tel. 15 Sept. 6/8 This means that for every £1,000 of reckonable earnings the pension offered must amount to at least £10 for each year of service.

1995 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Feb. 2/3 Now they await the lump sum and the pension, to be calculated on the basis of ‘reckonable service’.

1938 Law & Contemp. Probl. 5 128 I refer to reckonability of the results they [sc. decent business men and cooperative outfits] get.

2006 Irish Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. 1 Reckonability for superannuation of days lost during the nurses' dispute of 1999.