Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ratable"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ratable \Rat"a*ble\, a.
1. Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.

Twenty or[ae] were ratable to [at] two marks of
silver. --Camden.

2. Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable
estate.

3. Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments. --
{Rat"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Rat"a*bly}, adv.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

ratable
adj : (British) liable to payment of rates or taxes; "the ratable
value of property" [syn: {rateable}]


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