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y or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

Capable of being cooked. Blount.

Capable of being coerced. -- Co*er"ci*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.

Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.

Capable of cohesion.

Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay. Cohesive attraction. See under Attraction. -- Co*he"sive*ly, adv. -- Co*he"sive*ness, n.

Capable of being collated. Coleridge.

Capable of being collected.

Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.

Capable of combinding; consistent with. [R.] M. Arnold. -- Com*bin"a*ble*ness, n.

Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

Capable of being commanded.

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inc…

Capable of being committed.

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.