statutable

American  

[stach-oo-tuh-buhl] / ˈstætʃ ʊ tə bəl /

adjective

1. (of an offense) recognized by statute; legally punishable.

2. prescribed, authorized, or permitted by statute.

   the statutable age of a voter.

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statutable British  

/ ˈstætjʊtəbəl /

adjective

1. a variant of statutory statutory

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Other Word Forms

• nonstatutable adjective
• statutably adverb

Etymology

Origin of statutable

First recorded in 1630–40; statute + -able

Example Sentences

The ordinary lectures were the statutable exercises appointed by the Faculty, and delivered by its properly accredited teachers in the hours of the morning, which were sacred to the prelections of the masters.

From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.

There is no government mint of words, and it is no statutable offence to invent a felicitous or daring expression unauthorised by Mr. Todd!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

The great man, he said, who drew up those Acts of Union for Ireland and Scotland did not take a statutable sanction, for they all rested on higher grounds.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John

Those, which are rather conclusions of legal reason than matters of statutable provision, belong to universal equity, and are universally applicable.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund

This recognition is not merely technical, or strictly confined to a statutable interpretation.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd