Middle English Dictionary Entry
chalenǧeāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | chalenǧeāble adj. |
| Etymology | From chalenǧen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Open to criticism, objection, or challenge; questionable, contestable, objectionable.
Associated quotations
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)11.296 : A chartre is chalengeable byfor a chief iustice; If false latyne be in þe lettre, þe lawe it impugneth.
- a1425 PPl.C (Cmb Ff 5.35)7.136 : [Hue hadde a childe in the chapon-cote,] chalangeable heo semeth.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)538 : If alle thingis ben aboute wel considerid..noon of hem alle is chalengeable and blameable.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)226/33 : If..þe writyngis of Ambros..schulden for her wordis, so in þilk maner chalengeable, be dampnyd.