Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Made, required, or imposed by statute; statutory: as. a statutable punishment.
  • Allowed by the rules; standard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature.
  • adjective Made or being in conformity to statute; standard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of legislature.
  • adjective In conformity to statute; standard.

Etymologies

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statute +‎ -able

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Examples

  • 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.

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

  • 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.

    The Customs of Old England

  • Upon my word, you really deserve -- Since Mr George Combe has clearly shown in his admirable work "On the Constitution of Man, and its adaptation to the world around him," that ignorance is a statutable crime before Nature, and punishable, and punished by the laws of

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

  • 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.

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

  • The chief reason why a vast number of patents are unsuccessful, is, that it takes a long time (longer generally than fourteen years, the statutable limit of patent grants) to make the workmen of a country familiar with a new manufacture.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

  • He was habitually absent from chapel; his expenditure upon building and upon his household was excessive; he used the college seal at meetings which did not consist of the statutable number of sixteen, and so on.

    The Common Reader 1925

  • Before admission to each of these tests the candidate was presented by the Consiliarius of his Nation to the Rector for permission to enter it, and swore that he had complied with all the statutable conditions, that he would give no more than the statutable fees or entertainments to the Rector himself, the Doctor, or his fellow-students, and that he would obey the Rector.

    V. On Reading for Examinations 1920

  • He may not only deny our God and our Redeemer, but he may worship Jupiter or Osiris, an ape or a crocodile, the host of heaven or the creeping things of the earth; let him only have a statutable horror of the religion of others, and agree to brand with the name of idolatry the religion of the greater part of the Christian world.

    On Catholic Relief 1906

  • Newgate for six months, the statutable penalty for refusing to take the oath of allegiance, which was maliciously tendered to him by a magistrate.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • Nation to the Rector for permission to enter it, and swore that he had complied with all the statutable conditions, that he would give no more than the statutable fees or entertainments to the Rector himself, the Doctor, or his fellow-students, and that he would obey the Rector.

    On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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