a. Also stateable. [f. STATE v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being stated.
1802. Canning, in Earl Malmesbury’s Diaries & Corr. (1844), IV. 117. I will … send you … one or two trifling alterations more, and will then state to you the statable reasons for this last change.
1859. Dickens, Christmas Stor., Haunted House, i. For all these reasons, and for others less easily and briefly statable, I find [etc.].
1877. Ruskin, Fors Clav., lxxvi. 119. Those are the clearly stateable and memorable heads of expenditure.
1887. W. D. Whitney, in Century Mag., March, 921/2. The rationale of this is simple, and statable in brief form.
