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 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)

The ratable estate in the colony averaged sixty pounds per inhabitant at this time.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise

To direct the payment, therefore, of the whole amount of those claims which happened to be first adjudicated would prevent a ratable distribution of the fund among those equally entitled to its benefits.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

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.