inquisible
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inquisible (comparative more inquisible, superlative most inquisible)
- (obsolete) Admitting judicial inquiry.
- 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
- If body cannot be seen, death inquisible before justices of oyer and terminer, or peace
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “inquisible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)