英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdaʊ̯əbl̩/

形容詞

endowable (not comparable)

1. (rare) Eligible for endowment; able to be endowed or endowed upon.
   • 1908, Report of the Secretary of Public Instruction‎^[1], volume 32, page 81:

     The following table shows, arranged according to colleges and according to departments, the various amounts received—viz., endowable fees, and endowments paid thereon.

   • 1957, Official Yearbook of New South Wales‎^[2], page 591:

     The maximum rate of endowment was 5s. per week per endowable child, and the amount was reduced where the family income exceeded the living wage plus £13 per annum for each endowable child.

   • 2017, Timothy P. Daniels, editor, Sharia Dynamics: Islamic Law and Sociopolitical Processes‎^[3], page 50:

     However, these ruling show some important advancements, for example, in the understanding of what properties or benefits can be considered endowable, such as shares and stocks that were not financial instruments in the precolonial era.

2. (law, historical) Entitled to receive or eligible for dower; dowable.
   • 1839, Meigs, Return Jonathan, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee‎^[4], volume 19, page 387:

     By the provisions of the common law, a widow was endowable of all the lands of which her husband was seized during coverture.

   • 1874, Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi‎^[5], volume 49, page 203:

     In case of rent charge, she was endowable unless the heir had elected to make it personalty by resorting to her writ of annuity.

   • 1892, The Weekly Law Bulletin and Ohio Law Journal‎^[6], volume 28, page 333:

     If therefore the premises in this case had been sold before they were partially destroyed by fire, the widow would have been endowable in the entire sum that they would have sold for, which in this case it is fair to presume would have been $957.50, the total sum received from the sale and insurance.