deputable

English

Etymology

depute +‎ -able

Adjective

deputable (comparative more deputable, superlative most deputable)

1. Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.
   • 1841, Thomas Carlyle, Baillee The Covenanter:

     [A]ll these fitted Baillie to be a leader in General Assemblies and conclaves, a man deputable to the London Parliament and elsewhither.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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