a. rare. [f. SUBJECT v. + -ABLE, -IBLE. Cf. late L. subjectibilis (Vulgate).] That may be subjected to.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), III. 446. Under the assurance of his not being subjectable to eventual punishment. Ibid. (1808), Sc. Reform, 14. Not subjectible to counter-interrogation.
1831. Jer. Taylor’s Wks., IV. 277. It was propounded to these fathers confessors as a thing not subjectable to their penitential judicature.
Hence Subjectability, -ibility.
In recent Dicts.
