investigable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- uninvestigable adjective
Etymology
Origin of investigable
1585–95; < Late Latin investīgābilis, equivalent to Latin investīgā ( re ) to track down ( investigate ) + -bilis -ble
Example Sentences
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But Mormonism’s are more recent and investigable than most.
From New York Times
To things substantial we refer as well sacred and significant ceremonies as the more necessary and essential parts of worship, and, in a word, all things which are not mere external circumstances, such as were not particularly determinable within those bounds which it pleased God to set to his written word, and the right ordering whereof, as it is common to all human societies, whether civil or sacred, so it is investigable by the very light and guidance of natural reason.
From Project Gutenberg
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