Middle English Dictionary Entry
trīāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | trīāble adj. Pl. trīābles. |
| Etymology | AF triable; cp. ME trīen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Tested, proved; (b) law capable of being or liable to be tried in a court of law.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 Excellent soueraine (Dc 95)112 : Farewell, ladi of grete pris..Farewell, counsell of clennesse, Farewell, Turtill trewe triable.
b
- (1429) RParl.4.346a : What issue triable be enquest in the saide Forest and Hundredes..hit be tried be enquest of the corps of the saide Shire.
- (1436) RParl.4.501b : Iche persone by ye lawe may have a several Plee and Answere, triable in what Shire him liketh of ye seid Roialme.
- (1444) RParl.5.112a : The seid Tenauntz or Defendauntz often tymes imaginen and pleden forein and fals Plees sithen the last continuance in suche Suytz, triables in forein Shires, where thei be stronge of frendship, [etc.].
- (a1455) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.50 : The matier conteyned in that article is matier triable at the common lawe.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.52b : If any of the said Riottours so apperyng plede any relesse..triable oute of the said Shire of York, that then the issue therof to be tried within the said Shire of York and in noon other place.