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English
Etymology
From Middle English enquirable, equivalent to enquire + -able.
Adjective
enquirable (comparative more enquirable, superlative most enquirable)
- Alternative form of inquirable.
1581, William Lambard, Eirenarcha: or of The Office of the Iustices of Peace, , London: Ra Newbery, and H Bynneman, by the ass of Ri Tot & Chr Bar, page 497:Some men bée of the opinion, that theſe Statutes which be enquirable (by expꝛeſſe woꝛds) at the Quarter Seſsions onlie, may neuertheleſſe be enquired of at the ſpeciall Seſsions alſo.
1655, [Isaac La Peyrère], “The Proeme”, in A Theological Systeme upon That Presupposition, that Men Were before Adam, 1st part, London, signature F, recto:IT is a natural ſuſpition that the beginning of the world is not to be receiv’d according to that common beginning which is pitched in Adam, inherent in all men, who have but an ordinary knowledge in things: For that beginning ſeems enquirable, at a far greater diſtance, and from ages paſt very long before; both by the moſt ancient accounts of the Chaldæans, as alſo by the moſt ancient Records of the Ægyptians, Æthiopians and Scythians, and by parts of the frame of the world newly diſcovered, […]
1740, Gertrude MacKinney, editor, Pennsylvania Archives, 8th series, volume III (October 14, 1726—September 22, 1741), published 1931, page 2569:What Calumny hath been thrown upon the Governor, or by whom, he has not been pleased to acquaint us, nor who they are who licentiously traduce their Superiors, and vilify them without Doors; if any Thing of this Kind hath been done, it is more properly enquirable by others than by us; […]