Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Punishable; liable on an accusation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Without penal restraint; not punishable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Without
penal restraint ; notpunishable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The following seems to me to be an effect of this kind, and it strikes me the stronger as I remember the case to have happened, and remember it to have been dispunishable.
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The following seems to me to be an effect of this kind, and it strikes me the stronger as I remember the case to have happened, and remember it to have been dispunishable.
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The following seems to me to be an effect of this kind, and it strikes me the stronger as I remember the case to have happened, and remember it to have been dispunishable.
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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I. W Hard that lessee for years without waste should enjoy the trees or malsriali of the house when he pulls them down: the intention of that daase dtdy beisg that the lessee fer years should be is dispunishable as before the statute of Gloucester.
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The only free agent in the whole transaction is the in - former: but he is not only as dispunishable as the to me. "
Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures, (now first collected) to which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall ; with a preliminary essay, notes, fac-similes, &c. Good, John Mason, 1764-1827 1812
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