colourable claim

  • 1colourable — adjective a) Apparently true; potentially justifiable. they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie [...]. b) Deceptive, fake;… …

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  • 2Imaginary country — An imaginary country or fantasy country is often important in mail art, as it issues its own artistamps.It can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between an imaginary country, which does not even attempt to make any colourable claim to… …

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  • 3Scientology in Australia — A protester, dressed as the Scientology character Xenu, stands next to a Scientology building in Sydney, Australia (2008) Scientology has existed in Australia since the mid 1950s. Their numbers vary depending upon the source: according to the… …

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  • 4Council of Pisa —     Council of Pisa     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Council of Pisa     Preliminaries.     The great Schism of the West had lasted thirty years (since 1378), and none of the means employed to bring it to an end had been successful. Compromise or… …

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