warrantable

Etymology

warrant + -able

adj

  1. Justifiable, just, proper.
  2. Authorized by warrant or right.
  3. Of animals: having reached a sufficient age to be hunted.
    a warrantable deer
    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. 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

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