inferable

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The necessities for a nutritive system, a respiratory system, and a vascular system, in all animals of size and vivacity, seem to us legitimately inferable from the conditions to continued vital activity.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

It is fairly inferable, from Lord Byron’s own statements, that his family friends believed this charge. 

From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

So far as the economic interest enters into the constitution of beauty, it enters as a suggestion or expression of adequacy to a purpose, a manifest and readily inferable subservience to the life process.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Burke does not allow that a sufficient argument ad hominem is inferable from these premises.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Senators learned in the law conceded that if this purpose and effect were declared on the face of the act, or were necessarily inferable from its provisions, it must inevitably be declared unconstitutional.

From Our Changing Constitution by Pierson, Charles Wheeler