pleadable

[plee-duh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being pleaded, as a case in court.

Other Word Forms

• nonpleadable adjective
• unpleadable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pleadable¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English word from Anglo-French word pledable. See plead, -able

Example Sentences

As in the Instance of Self-Preservation; which is only Pleadable by the Supream Magistrate, in Bar to all General Exceptions; for he is First, presumed in Reason, to be vested with all Powers necessary for the Defence, and Protection of the Community: without which his Authority is Vain.

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Meat! perhaps your right to that may be pleadable; but other rights have to be pleaded first.

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But that music in the person of her most inspired sons, should have been sternly excluded from a participation in the honours awarded to her sister arts, seems an injustice which can be defended on no pleadable grounds.

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The same defence which he might have conclusively urged if soldiers, descending from the original San Thome, had blocked his transit, is justly pleadable for his men's voyage on the Orinoko past the new town.

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The Act of Settlement prescribed that "no pardon shall be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in parliament."

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