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Definition of Hangable
1. hang [adj] - See also: hang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hangable
Literary usage of Hangable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"... Parliament and Statutes made in the Reign of Henry 8th and his two Daughters,
all those People calling themselves Bohemians or Egyptians, are hangable ..."
2. The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, George Cruikshank (1869)
"... be hanged at fourteen, and certainly may not be hanged at seven, but the
intermediate period is one of doubt whether the infant culprit is hangable. ..."
3. Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Frederick James Furnivall (1868)
"455, 0.,Fr. pendable, hangable, that deserves hanging, thats fit to be hanged.
Cot. Poor table, men to be cheerful at, 1. 258. Presumption, beware of, 1. ..."
4. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1904)
"And if a man buys anything and cannot do this he is hangable by judgment, by the
usage of the city, if he be not of the franchise. Fordwich, cap. ..."
5. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1904)
"And if a man buys anything and cannot do this he is hangable by judgment, by the
usage of the city, if he be not of the franchise. Fordwich, cap. 15. ..."
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