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

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

Persons not possessed of other means of subsistence were punishable if they refused to work at the statutable rate of payment; and a clause in the act of Hen.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony

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

On the morning of Saturday, April 19, probably but little after nine o'clock, the statutable time for the opening of the Library, some zealous student stood at the door, but could get no further.

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

Religions have sometimes been divided into national or traditional, as distinguished from individual or statutable religion.

From Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)