Definition of "indictable" in Englisch

adjective

1. Subjecting one to an indictment. (of an act)

2. Able or deserving to be indicted. (of a person)

   • 1973, Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Harvard University Press, Appendix B, p. 307, In 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.