refusableadj.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 43 (MED) Þe wittis..oonli coueyten or oonli refusen as it is representid and perceyuyd..þat it is oonli coueytable or oonli refusable.

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 12 (MED) Wiþ which power [sc. reason] may be..founden in arguyng and concluding..what is cheseable, and what is refuseable.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Refusable, or worthye to be refused, Recusàbilis.

1622 C. Sibthorp Friendly Advt. Pretended Catholickes ii. i. 57 Even expositions also of Scripture, are to be framed & warranted by the Scriptures, & to be found consonant with them, or otherwise they are likewise refusable.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xvii. 271 If a patient hath bled nere so much, they will phlebotomize him further, which is an ill and refusable way.

1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 143 The Sensation of..displeasing Objects, which makes their Existence full of nothing but Sadness and Misery, and utterly refusable.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aii/1 Refusable, recusabilis.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rejectable, reiectable, refusable.

1659 H. Thorndike Epil. Trag. Church of Eng. i. 177 No act of theirs..is refusable by the Church.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 138 Since those Sufferings were absolutely refusable as not being the very same which the Law demanded.

1713 R. Yooll Disc. Nat. & Extent Covenant of Grace 20 His Sufferings were not a proper Payment; but a refusable, though valuable Consideration tantundem.

1766 J. Gill Necessity Christ's making Satisfaction for Sin 31 It was grace in God to accept of the satisfaction made by Christ; for though it was so full and compleat as nothing could be more so, yet it would have been a refusable one, had he not allowed Christ's name to be put in the obligation.

1828 Christian Rev. & Clerical Mag. 1 440 A compensation agreed upon in the highest councils of heaven;..therefore accepted, and no longer refusable, because agreed upon.

1897 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 19 Dec. 1/1 It may at first sight seem an anomaly that while the Bland silver dollars are legal-tender to any amount, the silver certificates which represent them should be refusable.

1910 Columbia Law Rev. 10 354 Those must be excluded whose presence is dangerous because provocative of violence by others. Strike breakers have therefore been properly held refusable.

1974 Times 26 Nov. 19/3 I didn't intend to sell them but the offer I got was just not refusable.

2004 A. Mauro in R. Casale & C. Margottini Nat. Disasters & Sustainable Devel. xv. 241 To propose his own solutions as the most appropriate and not easily refusable by an unspecialised public.

1653 J. Davies tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd 31 Geneura encouraged the less confident sort of people, to ask her those things which are honestly refusable.

1668 A. Marvell Let. 1 Oct. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 77 My Lord..did..wish [etc.]... Which, all circumstances considerd, seeming not refusable, my Lord Bellasis writ this letter.

1797 F. Hargrave Juridical Arguments & Coll. I. 455 It is not to be doubted, but that originally all rehearings were grantable or refusable at the court's discretion.

1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 404 An indulgence refusable, and not to be granted but upon conditions.

1890 Times 13 May 6/3 We provide that new licences shall be refusable by the justices at their unqualified discretion.

1905 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 6 324 The grant of new licences requiring confirmation, but the refusal of them not being appealable, and renewals not being refusable without a hearing in open Court.

1960 Times 26 Feb. 4/7 It would be unworkable if Ministers were to give an ad hoc assent to answering some particular questions in a hitherto refusable category.

2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Comment section) 28 Unfortunately, this isn't an entirely refusable request.