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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.


statutable British  
/ ˈstætjʊtəbəl /

adjective

  1. a variant of statutory statutory

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of statutable

First recorded in 1630–40; statute + -able

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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)

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

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

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

Some of the professors, no doubt, do lecture in a statutable manner.

From Aspects of Modern Oxford by Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis)

The statutable stipend of the Master was only £12 a year, though he had some other allowances, the total amount of which was equally trivial.

From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

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