endowable

Adjective

endowable (not comparable)

1. (rare) Eligible for endowment; able to be endowed or endowed upon.
   • The following table shows, arranged according to colleges and according to departments, the various amounts received—viz., endowable fees, and endowments paid thereon.1908, Report of the Secretary of Public Instruction, volume 32, page 81
   • 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.1957, Official Yearbook of New South Wales, page 591
2. (historical) Entitled to receive or eligible for dower; dowable.
   • By the provisions of the common law, a widow was endowable of all the lands of which her husband was seized during coverture.1839, Return Jonathan Meigs, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, volume 19, page 387
   • In case of rent charge, she was endowable unless the heir had elected to make it personalty by resorting to her writ of annuity.1874, Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, volume 49, page 203