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

For grammar the statutable amount was eightpence, for natural philosophy fourpence, and for logic threepence per term, and it was usual to reckon four terms to the year.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)

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

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

Quite different from this simple daily ancestral offering is the Pitriyagña or Pinda-pitriyagña, which forms part of many of the statutable sacrifices, and, first of all, of the New and Full-moon sacrifice.

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander

The statutable penalty for any wilful mutilation or abstraction of any book, or portion of a book, is immediate expulsion from the Library and University, 'sine ulla spe regressûs.'

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

This he named the 'Destiny,' and he received no check in fitting her up to his desire; the King paid 700 crowns, as the usual statutable bounty on shipbuilding, without objection.

From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew