warrantable

English

Etymology

warrant +‎ -able

Adjective

warrantable (comparative more warrantable, superlative most warrantable)

1. Justifiable, just, proper.
2. Authorized by warrant or right.
3. Of animals: having reached a sufficient age to be hunted.

   a warrantable deer

   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     They are the droppings of the beast pursued. The harbourer keeps them in his horn, to show to his master, and can tell by them whether it is a warrantable beast or otherwise, and what state it is in.

Derived terms

• warrantably