a. [f. AVOID v. + -ABLE.]
1. Liable to be made void or become invalid; voidable. ? Obs.
a. 1676. Hale, Common Law (1713), 156 (J.). Those Charters were not avoidable for the King’s Nonage.
1818. Colebrooke, Obligations, I. 228. The acts of a madman, lunatic, or idiot … are void or avoidable.
† 2. To be avoided or shunned. Obs.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. City of God, 752. If those evills make it avoydable, what is become of the blisse?
1744. Harris, Three Treat. (1841), 57. Another division of things external; that is, pursuable, avoidable, and indifferent.
3. Capable of being avoided or escaped.
1638. Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. iii. § 52. If the cause of it be some voluntary and avoidable fault, the Errour is it selfe sinfull.
1859. Mill, Liberty, 176. From idleness or from any other avoidable cause.
