exigible

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One goodly old man, named Michael Agelastes, big, burly, and dressed like an ancient Cynic philosopher, was distinguished by assuming, in a great measure, the ragged garb and mad bearing of that sect, and by his inflexible practice of the strictest ceremonies exigible by the

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  1. Capable of being exacted; demandable; requirable. Discount is a deduction allowed for a payment being made at a date prior to the time when the full amount is exigible. Encyc. Brit., VII. 536.

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  1. from French exigible = Spanish exigible = Portuguese exigivel = Italian esigibile, from Latin as if *exigibilis, from exigere, exact: see exact, v.
 

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