a. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] That can be commenced; † (in quot. 1654) competent to ‘commence’ at a university.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 152. But now they had conversed with him that could make them Commenceable without time, or Degrees; and make them Docti without being Doctores.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), V. xxix. 296. Suits commenceable on restitution of goods and chattels.
