inquirable, enquirable, a. Now rare.
(ɪnˈkwaɪərəb(ə)l)
[f. inquire v. + -able.]
That may or should be inquired about or into; that admits of or calls for inquiry; open to inquiry. (Chiefly in legal use.) Also with into.
| α 1485 Act 1 Hen. VII, c. 7 The same..Disobeysance shall be Felony, enquirable and determinable as is aforesaid. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 5 §1 All maner..thinges enquirable presentable or determinable before iusticers of peace. 1647 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. I. (1739) 88 This made the crime enquirable at the common-Law. 1740 Col. Rec. Pennsylv. IV. 404 Any Thing of this kind..is more properly enquirable by others than by us. |
| β a 1547 Petit. in Rye Cromer (1889) 53 All suche transpases & offences as be..Inquyreable in Haven Courts. 1574 J. Jones Nat. Begin. Grow. Things 42 So that it wer requisite at Assises, Sessions, and Sinodes, it were inqueereable. 1651 R. Saunders Plenary Possess. 9 The Third Question inquirable into is [etc.]. 1670 Bushell's Case in Phenix (1721) I. 423 An Article inquirable in every Oyer and Terminer. 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-ho. 377 The consideration of the note was not inquirable. |