ratable

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He’s just a very intelligent, manageable, smart, ratable kind of horse that will do anything his rider tells him to do.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

The claim was rejected in 1885 on the ground that deafness existed prior to enlistment, and also because of no ratable disability by reason of alleged wound in the cheek.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

As a matter of fact, the Russian idea of literary men is that they all hold some government or other appointment, on the committee of censorship, for example,--some ratable position.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The sibyl apologizingly answered: "There is a ratable and allegeable difference between a conferrable ellipsis and a trisyllabic di�resis."

From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by Hathaway, B. A.

The ratable value of the metropolis, or rather the district of the Metropolitan Board, is £23,960,109. 

From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)