adv. [f. STATUTABLE a. + -LY2.] In a statutable manner; by the operation of a statute or statutes; in accordance with the requirements of the statutes.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Westminster (1662), 243. Beniamin Johnson … was Statutably admitted into Saint Johns-colledge in Cambridge.
a. 1683. Oldham, Art of Poetry (1686), 24. Others by this conceit have been misled So much that they’re grown statutably mad.
1691. Case of Exeter-Coll., 30. Unless it was made appear that Mr. Colmer was not Statutably Expell’d.
1705. Hearne, Collect., 17 Nov. (O.H.S.), I. 84. He was … statutably qualified.
1872. Contemp. Rev., XX. 546. By courts statutably imposed upon the Establishment.
1879. H. Hardcastle, Statutory Law, 290 Appendix. Certain words and expressions, used in statutes, which have been judicially or statutably construed.
1885. M. Pattison, Mem., 175. Stanley, not being statutably eligible, could not have come in, unless he had been invited to do so.
