Assailable

a. [f. ASSAIL v.¹ + -ABLE.]

  1.  Capable of being assailed; open to assault.

1605.  Shaks., Macb., III. ii. 39. There’s comfort yet; they are assaileable.

1673.  Ladies Call., I. ii. § 4. To fortifie that so assailable part [the ear].

1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. § 20. 141. We climbed the walls of rock, and wound round the ledges, seeking the assailable points.

  2.  Open to hostile criticism.

1833.  I. Taylor, Fanat., viii. 320, note. Had his orthodoxy been assailable.

1883.  Law Times, 15 Dec., 116/2. Driven to admit that the adverse decision of the court is assailable.