▪ I. triable, a.1
(ˈtraɪəb(ə)l)
[a. AF. triable, f. as try v. + -able.]
That may be tried.
1. Law. Capable of being tried in a court of law; liable to judicial trial. Also transf. a. Of a cause or offence.
| 1429 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 346/1 What issue triable be enquest..happethe to be taken..that hit be tried be enquest of the corps of the saide Shire. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 21 Plees..triable by any Jury or Inquest. 1600 Tate in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 8, I hold all appeals triable in the King's Bench lawfull. 1770 Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. II. 339 A direct simple issue..triable by plain men. 1865 Nichols Britton II. 161 note, A writ of right, triable by battle or great assise. |
b. Of a person.
| 1554 St. Trials, Sir N. Throchmorton (1730) I. 76/1 The Partie triable..shall finde himselfe in much worse case, than before when those cruell Lawes stoode in force. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 1113/2 The principall and accessaries in felonie and murther be triable and punishable by the common law. 1697 tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 243 All that belong to the Inquisition being not subject to or tryable by any other Jurisdiction. 1757 J. Lind Lett. Navy ii. 99 All persons are triable by court martials. 1883 Sat. Rev. 10 Feb. 170/2 Englishmen are now triable for all kinds of misdemeanours and crimes..in the High Court at Allahabad. |
2. That may be ascertained, tested, or proved.
| 1612 Sturtevant Metallica (1854) 27 A triable Inuention is an inuention whose worth and goodnesse cannot certainly appeare before trialls and experiments. 1626 Donne Serm. xxi. (1640) 202 The matter is matter of faith..considerable, and triable by reason. 1660 Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. i. 28 In our above-mentioned first Experiment, and..others tryable in our Engine. 1706 E. Baynard in Sir J. Floyer Hot & Cold Bath. ii. 210 She had tried all things triable. |
Hence ˈtriableness.
| 1847 in Webster. |
▪ II. † ˈtriable, a.2 Obs. nonce-wd.
[f. tri- + -able.]
Divisible into three.
| 1647 Ward Simp. Cobler 55 Whatsoever is duable or triable, is fryable. |