inquirable

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inquirable (comparative more inquirable, superlative most inquirable)

Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest.
- c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
  There be many more things inquirable by you throughout all the former parts , which it were overlong in particular to recite

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inquirable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)