chastisable

English

Etymology

chastise +‎ -able

Adjective

chastisable (comparative more chastisable, superlative most chastisable)

1. Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
   • 1878, Calendar of State Papers:

     it would be a personal crime, chastisable in the person who had committed it

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “chastisable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)