Adjective : the statutable age of a voter. From Dictionary.com.
The great man, he said, who drew up those Acts of Union for Ireland and Scotland did not take a statutable sanction, for they all rested on higher grounds. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
For grammar the statutable amount was eightpence, for natural philosophy fourpence, and for logic threepence per term, and it was usual to reckon four terms to the year. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
The ordinary lectures were the statutable exercises appointed by the Faculty, and delivered by its properly accredited teachers in the hours of the morning, which were sacred to the prelections of the masters. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
Upon my word, you really deserve -- Since Mr George Combe has clearly shown in his admirable work "On the Constitution of Man, and its adaptation to the world around him," that ignorance is a statutable crime before Nature, and punishable, and punished by the laws of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
November, 1617, of the statutable bounty of 700 crowns for his construction of the Destiny, an erasure precedes his name. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
The great man had the audacity to invoke the law to compel her to return, as she had not given statutable notice of her flight. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
"In the month of June 1" fdg, a Petition was offered by the Under-graduates, for an alteration of their statutable dress; and it was granted. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ...] Reference
The statutable stipend of the Master was only £12 a year, though he had some other allowances, the total amount of which was equally trivial. From Wordnik.com. [St. John's College, Cambridge] Reference
Newgate for six months, the statutable penalty for refusing to take the oath of allegiance, which was maliciously tendered to him by a magistrate. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Those which are rather conclusions of legal reason than matters of statutable provision belong to universal equity, and are universally applicable. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
Persons not possessed of other means of subsistence were punishable if they refused to work at the statutable rate of payment; and a clause in the act of Hen. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference
This he named the 'Destiny,' and he received no check in fitting her up to his desire; the King paid 700 crowns, as the usual statutable bounty on shipbuilding, without objection. From Wordnik.com. [Raleigh] Reference
Mutimer was morally convinced that this was the case, and would vastly have enjoyed laying his former friend by the heels for the statutable six weeks, but satisfactory proofs were not to be obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
He was habitually absent from chapel; his expenditure upon building and upon his household was excessive; he used the college seal at meetings which did not consist of the statutable number of sixteen, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader] Reference
There Jane's parents lay, not in a grave to themselves, but buried amidst the nameless dead, in that part of the ground reserved for those who can purchase no more than a portion in the foss which is filled when its occupants reach statutable distance from the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
Nation to the Rector for permission to enter it, and swore that he had complied with all the statutable conditions, that he would give no more than the statutable fees or entertainments to the Rector himself, the Doctor, or his fellow-students, and that he would obey the Rector. From Wordnik.com. [On The Art of Reading] Reference
London, whose negligence or indifference may defeat the provision altogether, (I know a publisher of a splendid botanical work, who told me that, by forbearing to attract notice to it within the statutable time, he saved his eleven copies;) and placed at the mercy of a librarian, who. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
The notion of a town corporation, or of the central government at this or that date, has been that museums are best controlled and public money expended in connection with them by persons who know nothing about the real importance of the collections, and receive no guidance from any scheme or statutable declaration of specific purpose drawn up by a competent authority. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Before admission to each of these tests the candidate was presented by the Consiliarius of his Nation to the Rector for permission to enter it, and swore that he had complied with all the statutable conditions, that he would give no more than the statutable fees or entertainments to the Rector himself, the Doctor, or his fellow-students, and that he would obey the Rector. From Wordnik.com. [V. On Reading for Examinations] Reference
A year, no mean sum in these days -- being, in fact, the same as the statutable stipend of the Master. From Wordnik.com. [St. John's College, Cambridge] Reference
They measure the seasonable time for their departure after this method: they have a door to their town-house, which is wide enough for the largest man to enter when he is fasting: through this the guests pass; and when any one would depart, if he stops in this passage, he is trusted to go out at another door; but if it be as easy as if he were fasting, the master of the ceremonies makes him tarry till he comes to be of a statutable magnitute: after which example, Willfrid's needle in. From Wordnik.com. [Ideal Commonwealths] Reference
'that Mr. Bacon was chosen by a majority of legal and statutable rotes; but this not appearing so to the gentlemen who supported Mr. Whitstones, the Vicc-Chancellor ordered him to be declared duty elected. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...] Reference
18, 1831, and pleaded "Not guilty," but on February 17, when his trial came on, he allowed judgment to go by default against him on those counts of the indictment which charged him with a statutable offence, provided that other counts, which charged him with a conspiracy at common law, should be withdrawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)] Reference
My father put on his spectacles — looked, — took them off, — put them into the case — all in less than a statutable minute; and without opening his lips, turned about and walked precipitately down stairs: my mother imagined he had stepped down for lint and basilicon; but seeing him return with a couple of folios under his arm, and Obadiah following him with a large reading-desk, she took it for granted ’twas an herbal, and so drew him a chair to the bedside, that he might consult upon the case at his ease. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
And labour'd hard to hammer statutable Rhyme). From Wordnik.com. [Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707)] Reference
The petitioner states, amongst other matter of equal, if not greater importance, to all who are British in their feelings, as well as blood and birth, that on the 21st January, 1813, at Huddersfield, himself and six other persons, who, on hearing of his arrival, had waited on him merely as a testimony of respect, were seized by a military and civil force, and kept in close custody for several hours, subjected to gross and abusive insinuation from the commanding officer, relative to the character of the petitioner; that he (the petitioner) was finally carried before a magistrate, and not released till an examination of his papers proved that there was not only no just, but not even statutable charge against him; and that, notwithstanding the promise and order from the presiding magistrates of a copy of the warrant against your petitioner, it was afterwards withheld on divers pretexts, and has never until this hour been granted. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
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