"indictable" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "indict + -able.",
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      "form": "more indictable",
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          "ref": "1658, Anthony Burgess, “A Demonstration of the Day of Judgment”, in A Treatise of Self-Judging, London: T. Underhill, page 61",
          "text": "Do not then charge men as too strict or precise, when they endeavour to abstain from idle thoughts and idle words, that they dare not give themselves that licence which others take, for these are indictable as well as great sins;",
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          "ref": "1786, John Trusler, The London Adviser and Guide, London: for the author, page 132",
          "text": "Stoppage of streets, by coaches standing at places of entertainment, &c. &c. are public nusances, and indictable.",
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        {
          "ref": "1902, E. W. Hornung, chapter 16, in The Shadow of the Rope, New York: Scribner, page 216",
          "text": "In fact, ‘insult’ is hardly the word for what even I have heard you say; let me warn you, madam, that you have sailed pretty close to the wind already in the way of indictable slander.",
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        {
          "ref": "1944, George Orwell, “Raffles and Miss Blandish”, in Dickens, Dali & Others, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1946, page 208",
          "text": "The Sherlock Holmes stories […] are not all murders, and some of them do not even deal with an indictable crime.",
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          "ref": "1653, John Jones, Lawyers Unmask’d, London: Thomas Matthewes, pages 5–6",
          "text": "[…] for Lords, Judges, and Justices of all sorts may, and too often do transgress the laws, as other men, and so of equals or Superiours, become subject to the justice of their associats in Commission […] being transfigured from Superiour Judges of the Law, to Inferiour Trespassers against it, Indictable by their Peers,",
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          "text": "1973, Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Harvard University Press, Appendix B, p. 307,\nIn order to sustain his argument in the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, his leading counsel, maintained that judges were indictable for violation of their official duties."
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        {
          "word": "chargeable"
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      "ipa": "/ɪnˈdaɪtəbəl/"
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      "word": "indictability"
    },
    {
      "word": "indictable offence"
    },
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          "ref": "1658, Anthony Burgess, “A Demonstration of the Day of Judgment”, in A Treatise of Self-Judging, London: T. Underhill, page 61",
          "text": "Do not then charge men as too strict or precise, when they endeavour to abstain from idle thoughts and idle words, that they dare not give themselves that licence which others take, for these are indictable as well as great sins;",
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          "ref": "1786, John Trusler, The London Adviser and Guide, London: for the author, page 132",
          "text": "Stoppage of streets, by coaches standing at places of entertainment, &c. &c. are public nusances, and indictable.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, E. W. Hornung, chapter 16, in The Shadow of the Rope, New York: Scribner, page 216",
          "text": "In fact, ‘insult’ is hardly the word for what even I have heard you say; let me warn you, madam, that you have sailed pretty close to the wind already in the way of indictable slander.",
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        {
          "ref": "1944, George Orwell, “Raffles and Miss Blandish”, in Dickens, Dali & Others, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1946, page 208",
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          "ref": "1653, John Jones, Lawyers Unmask’d, London: Thomas Matthewes, pages 5–6",
          "text": "[…] for Lords, Judges, and Justices of all sorts may, and too often do transgress the laws, as other men, and so of equals or Superiours, become subject to the justice of their associats in Commission […] being transfigured from Superiour Judges of the Law, to Inferiour Trespassers against it, Indictable by their Peers,",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1973, Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Harvard University Press, Appendix B, p. 307,\nIn order to sustain his argument in the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, his leading counsel, maintained that judges were indictable for violation of their official duties."
        }
      ],
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